As North Korea continues to threaten the West with a nuclear attack, U.S. Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) suggested the isolationist nation could simply smuggle in a nuke through a “bale of marijuana.”
Sherman raised the issue Wednesday afternoon, when the entire U.S. Senate was called to a White House briefing on North Korea.
“Since a nuclear bomb is about the size of a person, it could be smuggled into the United States inside a bale of marijuana,” he said in 2007.
Sherman has also suggested Iran could employ the same strategy.
“Iran wants intercontinental ballistic missiles,”
Sherman said in 2015. “That is the symbol of being a great tyranny. But the fact is, you can smuggle a nuclear weapon inside a bale of marijuana. Iran will always have a nuclear delivery system, as long as there are a couple of guys who want 72 virgins apiece.”
Now for an obvious question: Why smuggle something illegal inside something else
illegal? It all goes back to 1996 when David Kay of the International Atomic Energy Agency seemed to first suggest the idea to “Frontline.”
“I’ve often said, my preferred method for delivering a nuclear device is, I would hide it in a bale of marijuana, contract it out to the drug lords and move it,” Kay said. “Marijuana is a good shielder actually for radiation. The drug lords have a superb record for delivery.
They’re not Fed Ex, but they’re awfully close to it. And contract it out and get it across the border.”
Rep. Brad Sherman Worried North Korea Could Smuggle Nuke In 'Bale Of Marijuana' | The Huffington Post
A Republican congressman from Arizona defended the construction of a barrier on the U.S.-Mexico border by arguing that a nuclear weapon could be smuggled across a porous border in a bale of marijuana.
Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ), whose district is just over 100 miles away from the U.S.-Mexico border, referenced the illicit drug trade in a discussion Wednesday with CNN’s Brianna Keilar on President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall.
This was not Frank’s first reference to a nuclear weapon traveling across the border in a bale of marijuana. In fact, he raised the possibility on the floor of the U.S. House during an Aug. 2, 2012 speech, according to
his website.
“Specifically imagine for a moment, Mr. Speaker, the scenario of Hezbollah, one of Iran's terrorist proxies, gaining possession of just two nuclear warheads and bringing them across the border into the United States concealed, say, in bales of marijuana,” he said, “then transporting them into the heart of two different, crowded, unnamed cities. Then calling and telling the White House exactly when and where the first one will be detonated, and then following through 60 seconds later.”
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trent-franks-marijuana-border-nuclear-weapon
I give the anchor credit. She didn't flinch when he said that........
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2pEHCZsPvQ