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They weren't real and still aren't. You can make a nuke small enough to fit in, say, a shell (and the US did), but the minimum critical mass is still way too heavy to carry around. That's just physics. Uranium and plutonium are both significantly denser than lead.
It's kind of wild you think any nuclear weapon would be "easy to access".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suitcase_nuclear_device
both US and Russia had programs started in 1950s. Official denials aside, there is evidence they were made. At any rate, car sized, or truck sized nukes are both easier, and higher yield.
Access from nation states cooperating with your nation state "can be made easy". US has made everyone angry, and won't know who hit them. A single nuclear detonation in US would collapse its government, currency and economy due to already being up against sustainable debt limit.
You could put a Davy Crockett in conspicuously beefy wheeled luggage, it's true. Or a backpack worn by a muscly special forces dude, like in the picture. I feel like people picture a skinny briefcase when you say "suitcase nuke", though.
Who are we thinking of, North Korea? Russia likes the new guy in America, and China likes stability. India and Pakistan have no dog in this fight, and everyone else was a steadfast ally just months ago.
First off, that's the sort of thing that will take more than a lunch to arrange. Second, the level or recklessness here is crazy, and killing thousands of civilians with a first strike would make us the bad guy. Third, debt load won't mean very much if they have the kind of political will that would produce.
I guess I should point out we'd have no trouble making our own nuke if we really needed it, too. There's hundreds of tons of plutonium mixed in the spent fuel we have in storage right now, and we have lots of people who can design the thing.
US empire hatred of Russia is not changed. Russia can meet its objectives in Ukraine without Trump speeding it up, in exchange for not defending Iran for Israel's benefit, or getting free nuclear power stations it controls. China is already on a delete America program. US isolating itself into being useless to the world, makes resetting it and all of the fools who support its debt, a path for a new global marshall plan led by China. North Korea is the one who can help the cheapest. Again, car or container sized works too.
Canada is increasing divisiveness with US enemies list. Bold strategy, Cotton.
The US is a bank masquerading as a country. Bond vigilantes are real, and crediblity for more debt weak.
Permean or other oil basins would kill little while destroying US energy sector. Question is whether it is true that "we will never become 51st state". Maybe that means we accept the total economic destruction of our country, and all demaning subjugation short of accepting territorial rule. Instead it could mean that all defense of our sovereignty is pursued, instead of gaslighting temporary resistance like Chuck Schumer.
That's way too big for a single nuke. It's a geological layer. Even multiples wouldn't do it. Maybe we could just sink the country while we're at it. /s
Banks don't have an army or the ability to tax you. Also, the US is still way behind Japan, for example.