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H-912 transport container for Mk-54 SADM. A suitcase nuclear device (also suitcase nuke, suitcase bomb, backpack nuke, snuke, mini-nuke, and pocket nuke) is a tactical nuclear weapon that is portable enough that it could use a suitcase as its delivery method.
The term suitcase nuke is generally used to describe any type of small, man-portable nuclear device although there is serious debate as to the validity of the term itself. In a worst case analysis, a suitcase nuke would be small enough to be hand-carried into a major population or leadership center undetected and then detonated.
The Russian "nuclear briefcase" from the early 1990s on display at the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center in Yekaterinburg.. Cheget (Russian: Чегет) is a "nuclear briefcase" (named after Mount Cheget [] in Kabardino-Balkaria) and a part of the automatic system for the command and control of Russia's Strategic Nuclear Forces (SNF) named Kazbek (Казбек, named after Mount Kazbek on the ...
SADM in its carry bag SADM hard carrying case A U.S. Army Special Forces paratrooper conducts a high-altitude low-opening military freefall jump with an MK–54 SADM. The Special Atomic Demolition Munition (SADM), also known as the XM129 and XM159 Atomic Demolition Charges, [1] and the B54 bomb [2] was a nuclear man-portable atomic demolition munition (ADM) system fielded by the US military ...
A type of nuclear explosive most suitable for use by ground special forces was the Special Atomic Demolition Munition, or SADM, sometimes popularly known as a suitcase nuke. This is a nuclear bomb that is man-portable, or at least truck-portable, and though of a relatively small yield (one or two kilotons) is sufficient to destroy important ...
The weapon is notable for being the smallest nuclear weapon in both weight and yield to have entered US service. It was a compact implosion device containing plutonium-239 as its fissile material, [ 1 ] and in its various versions and mods it had a yield of 10 to 1,000 tons of TNT (42 to 4,184 gigajoules ).
Pantex is the primary United States nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly facility that aims to maintain the safety, security and reliability of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The facility is named for its location in the Panhandle of Texas on a 16,000-acre (25 sq mi; 65 km 2 ) site 20 miles (32 km) northeast of Amarillo ...
Experts estimated the stockpile of Israeli nuclear weapons range from 60 to as many as 400. [3] [4] [5] It is unknown if Israel's reported thermonuclear weapons are in the megaton range. [6] Israel is also reported to possess a wide range of different systems, including neutron bombs, tactical nuclear weapons, and suitcase nukes. [7]