Neutron Bomb - Ever Heard of it?

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Samuel T. Cohen, the physicist who invented the small tactical nuclear weapon known as the neutron bomb, a controversial device designed to kill enemy troops with subatomic particles but leave battlefields and cities relatively intact, died on Sunday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 89.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/02/us/02cohen.html?_r=1

Fired via a missile or an artillery shell and detonated a quarter-mile above ground, his bomb limited death to an area less than a mile across, avoiding wider indiscriminate slaughter and destruction. It was not a radioactively “clean” bomb, but its neutrons dissipated quickly, leaving no long-term contamination that could render entire regions uninhabitable for decades.


But many military planners scoffed at the idea of a nuclear bomb that limited killing and destruction, and insisted that deployment would escalate the arms race and make nuclear war more likely. The device was anathema to military contractors and armed services with vested interests in nuclear arsenals. Even peace activists denounced it as “a capitalist weapon” because it killed people but spared the real estate.
Washington rejected the bomb repeatedly.
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It sounds better than a nuclear bomb to me....but I can see how it would make people use it more easily than they would a nuclear bomb.


In recent years, Mr. Cohen prominently warned of a black market substance called red mercury, supposedly capable of compressing fusion materials to detonate a nuclear device as small as a baseball — ideal for terrorists.
Most scientists call the substance mythical, and stories about it, many circulating on the Internet, are widely regarded as spurious.
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Now that shit sounds scary!
 
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may we all pray together that his spirit enjoy safe and swift passage to the kingdom of life eternal.

may we never stop praying that his spirit be burdened with the guilt of anything that is destroyed as a result of that weapon failing in it's secondary mission which is as a deterrent.
 
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