[ RadSafe ] Neutron Bomb used on Fallujah

Tue Nov 29 12:28:16 CST 2011

Bob,

Do you really think that this has killed "cold fusion"? At least our expert for everything, especially on everything nuclear, the eminent and omnipotent advocate of everything antinuclear Chris Busby (sorry, (visiting) Professor) has given his opinion.  How can you dare to contradict his expertise, which is close to be nominated for next years Nobel Prize - being in line with one of the most recent Nobel prizes for ""Peace", the recipient  just to send more troops into a foreign country. 

Sorry Bob, this is not "tongue in cheek", it is much further down.....

Best regards, you might know that I enjoy your RADSAFE messages!

Franz

---- bobcherry at satx.rr.com schrieb:
> I thought that the activists had killed cold fusion because it affected the habitat of the endangered northwest tree octopus.

Bob C

---- Doug Aitken <jdaitken at sugar-land.oilfield.slb.com> wrote: 
> Guys:
The "Red Mercury" project is well documented in the Internet! 
So it must be true!
;~)
I guess this is another depiction of the "Scientific Approach" of Busby.

Sure does impress me.......

Here is a "short" scientific explanation:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2004/sep/30/thisweekssciencequestions1

Enjoy!
Regards
Doug

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Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Neutron Bomb used on Fallujah

Chris, seriously "if you do not know", why provide that "detail??!!!

Mike

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Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Neutron Bomb used on Fallujah

The neutron bomb is not a conventional one. It uses cold fusion through deuterium dissolved in uranium which when supersaturated by compression causes fusion. The method was developed following the Fleischmann discovery using Palladium electrodes, but uranium is better. It is a small device, as small as a baseball. The Russians called it Red Mercury and described its characteristics.
But this was only a suggestion. I do not know. All I know is that there is slightly enriched uranium in Fallujah and also in the Lebanon bomb crater from Khiam.
Thank you
Chris

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Sent: Mon 28/11/2011 22:19
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Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Neutron Bomb used on Fallujah

Thank you for your kind words.

Another argument against the claim that a neutron weapon was used in Fallujah is that I suspect all versions of enhanced radiation weapons (neutron bombs) use plutonium, rather than highly enriched uranium.  At very least the one description that I found in a quick look mentioned using plutonium, and it fits with other things I know about such weapons.  If that is the case, a neutron bomb as the source of U235 is even more difficult to accept.

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Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Neutron Bomb used on Fallujah

Mike

Thanks for your usual calm, well informed, and carefully considered discussion of the matter.  I might only add that the article is really baffling in that it refers to the U in question as being simultaneously "weapons-grade" and "slightly enriched".  These are mutually exclusive characterizations.

Cheers
cja

 > It is sad that people who promote this kind of thing don't bother to> google what they are talking about.  A "neutron bomb" isn't some magic> people-killing-building-leaving device; it is a low yield nuclear> weapon, optimized for neutron production.  If one had been set off in> Fallujah, everyone who was interested would have known about it, and
the> evidence would be incontrovertible.>> The first clues would have
been pretty distinctive: the mushroom cloud,> really, REALLY loud explosion and flash (even compared to the other> explosions and flashes) and an electro-magnetic pulse that would have> fried most electronics for miles around.  Given that almost every> American in the area was carrying some personal electronics such as cell> phones, computers, GPS units, etc., if there had been an EMP, it would> have been noticed.
Someone would have talked.  In addition to the US, I> would guess there are at least four countries with satellites that could> detect and identify t  he EMP from a nuke, and probably as many> corporations (and it may be as high as 10 countries).  There would also> be a fairly distinctive blast damage pattern at ground zero.>> Second, given the fairly short range of a neutron dose high enough to be> fatal in the short term (and if you are in the middle of a battle you> don't use thing with latency periods in years or decades, as you want to> kill your targets now, to make them stop shooting at you), the weapon> would have to be detonated fairly close to the ground.  This means LOTS> of fallout.  Easily detectable levels of short lived isotopes would have> been seen probably a couple thousand miles downwind.  No matter which> way the wind was blowing, there are countries that would be willing to> blow the whistle on the event.>> Third, one of the things about neutron bombs is high neutron flux in the> target area (that is the whole point, after all).
High neutron flux> means lots of activation of material in that area, wit  h characteristic> isotopes.  A lot of them are short lived, but there would be enough to> increase the gamma background, and detectable with a hand held gamma> spec device for quite some time after.>> No, the best explanation for finding U235 in samples is that it is> naturally occurring.>

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