On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Ken Brown wrote: > In the unlikely event that the North Koreans wanted to send a nuke to > the USA, they might not need an ICBM. Just bribe or otherwise subvert a
It would be a shipment running some risk of detection, especially given a hot warhead, which is difficult to shield. IIRC there's been recently some false alarm raised by a contaminated scrap metal shipment in the US (scrap metal is usually contaminated by medical and industrial Co 60 sources processed by mistake, this batch must have been particularly hot). > few shipping clerks in South Korea or China and get them shipped over in > a container of tractor parts. (Or as Tim said a few months ago, send > them with the regular shipments of cocaine - though that would involve > first getting them from North Korea to somewhere that actually has an > agriculture)
