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Originally posted by Thermodyne:
It would be quiet easy to track the device to the source. All fissionable materials carry a signature that can be linked to their source of manufacture. So based on byproduct yield, we would know the source in less than a day. At that point, it would just be a case of tracking it to the end user. If any large city was to be nuked by terrorists, then the gloves will come off in the war on terrorism.

Wrong. That's B/S for public consuntion. There are many ways to make that signature vague enogh to be untraceble. There were Soviet plants build for only this porpouse. Besides, if the nuke was stolen from a Russian depot you will never be able to track the user.