if by "embolden" you mean "convert them into nuclear fucking vapor" then yes. you misunderstand, glass the whole thing. not "a device", we park a carrier outside their door, and send a whole damn onslaught of devices...think apocolyptical... they can't retaliate if they are dead. do it at night, just after dusk, that way when they detonate, every country in the middle east will see the light... then we send out a message again. "Saudi Arabia housed terrorists, they fucked with us, now they no longer exist, CONTROL YOUR FUCKING PEOPLE"