"24" continued its high-intensity action tonight. Sadly, Jack's "dudeness" had to take a tragic turn and now yet another favorite character is gone.
By the end of episode 4, a one-kiloton nuclear weapon was detonated in Valencia, California (must be a bummer violation of deed restrictions in this sunny planned community).
A Wikipedia article describes the controversy around around suitcase nukes, including that the USSR apparently did in fact manufacture them. (Both the US and USSR made backpack weapons.)
The Russian government's statements on this matter have been contradictory. First they denied that such weapons had ever existed; then they said that all of them had been destroyed. However, the highest-ranking GRU defector Stanislav Lunev confirmed that such Russian-made devices do exist and described them in more detail.
Here's a telling datum from the article: the 1995 Oklahoma City truck bomb was estimated at "a yield of 0.002 kiloton." Compare that with the explosive power of one full kiloton.
Could Al Qaeda get them?
Jack and CTU definitely have their work cut out for them: the terrorists have four more bombs.
Posted by Alan at January 15, 2007 09:18 PM