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A backpack device is BIG. It could not be concealed like a suicide vest. It also requires nuclear materials (plutonium) and a specialty implosion design and triggers Iran does not have.
An Atomic Demolition Munition was nearly the size of a 55-gallon drum and came in two(?) pieces -- the weapon itself and the equipment to detonate it -- for making it easier to transport.
The SADM is 4 pieces, each weighing 18kg.
Nobody's walking around with a nuke vest. Why bother? Bomb vests are made so you can walk into a crowded place. With a nuke, just drive it in a truck in the targeted neighborhood.
This is just Vance trying to scare some support into the disaster that Trump started to make us forget about Epstein.