The fact that we can now get driverless cars to do it by themselves doesn't make a nuclear car bomb any more likely or any scarier.
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I was taking a shower when this hit me:
The emergence of drones/remote-driven vehicles effectively bypass conventional nuclear deterrents. Say I'm the US, and I want to hit Russia before they could hit back. What do I do? Build self-driven SUVs with Russian license plates, darken the windows, and fit the biggest nuclear warhead in the back that is practically possible. Maybe put a dummy in the driver's seat so it's not that apparent that my car is remote-driven. Drive up to a big city/nuclear launch site, and boom.
I don't even know how could a nation protect itself from something like that.
Thoughts on this?
I was actually thinking fitting one or two inside a torpedo, and fire it off a submarine. Or construct self-driving torpedoes and launch them off of ships or aircraft carriers from a distance.
And no militant group is going to get their hands on the materials required to make nuclear weapons because 1)people track these materials, 2)they're expensive, and 3)I seriously doubt that even black market people or w/e would be willing to sell these materials to a group of extremist noobs.