[kabdib]

I'm less worried about NK missiles than I am about a boat with an NK nuke on board, detonated in a harbor. A "smugglers war".

I'm assuming the US Coast Guard is all over this kind of threat, but I don't know how hard it is to detect a bomb hidden aboard in some cranny, shielded by multiple layers of inches-thick steel.

[boomboomsubban]

>I'm less worried about NK missiles than I am about a boat with an NK nuke on board, detonated in a harbor

How does North Korea benefit from an attack like that? The regime isn't suicidal, every move they make is to strengthen their own position.

[pcurve]

That's assuming it can be traced to NK after detonation.

[boomboomsubban]

What is the benefit in that situation? They know any attack will make the US more hostile, whether they're involved or not.

[treetoppin]

Im not privy to the nitty gritty of the Coast Guard's Maritime Safety ans Security Teams (MSSTs) operations, but finding a nuclear weapon on a vessel is fundamentally a needle in a haystack problem. The best way is going to be intel driven - it is just too easy to hide from a physics standpoint.

[fastball]

  inches-thick steel

Lead would probably work better.