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The factual evidence indicates that our government is using and has used 3rd or possibly 4th generation hydrogen bombs domestically and internationally. The evidence for international usage is not quite as strong as the domestic usage, but when domestic usage is considered, the international usage seems inescapable. The process of exclusion based on the known facts leaves only one viable option for the destruction of the World Trade Center (WTC) buildings - a relatively pure hydrogen bomb.
Two billion pounds seemed like an extremely large amount of particulate matter from buildings whose total weight has been quoted at around 3 billion pounds. Debris removal has been quoted at 1.2 billion pounds. Based on these rough numbers 2/3rds of the building was indeed turned to dust or vaporized.
Originally posted by Tom Bedlam
The problem with the micro-fusion weapon theory is that without a DU casing, mostly what you get out of fusing Li6D is really energetic neutrons.
Originally posted by Tom Bedlam
In all seriousness, it's damn near impossible to get a small fusion weapon, because you need a minimum sized fission nuke to set the thing off. You can't make the bomb smaller than the trigger.
Originally posted by Tom Bedlam
Many of the initiators now in use (not all) use a small fusion generator to produce a burst of neutrons. You can build a fusion generator yourself if you're handy and have a really well equipped workshop. You can do it with a bank of lasers using laser ablation. But in these cases, the rate is so low that no explosion occurs, and you can't really get it higher. Nowhere near high enough for a bomb.
As far as the fission bombs go, there are a number of facets involved, and I am going to smack up against old NDAs. I will say that it can be done.
Originally posted by Tom Bedlam
The trick with laser ablation is to hit a pellet of fuel which is some sort of with a hugely compressed laser pulse. The "rind" of the pellet is ablated and causes the pellet to be compressed and heated, until ignition occurs, or the pellet develops some unfortunate asymmetry and fails. They use D-T or D-D in the pellet, requires a cryo plant to keep it solid.
Electrons, being quite light, spread and scatter the most. A lot of people are looking at heavy ions. The equipment fills several large buildings. Not useful for a bomb.
Originally posted by bsbray11
Ok, so this is all photon energy? Is that correct? I know you've already said it wasn't enough energy, but this is just using photons?
I've seen from several sources that Nikola Tesla developed a particle gun within the last century ...he divided up the plans for it and sent them to various countries, out of humanitarian interest.
The energy from fission reactions is not actually from nuclear forces but from electrical forces, forcing newly-split atoms away from each other, also at insane speeds. Right?
If photons can do something, I mean it goes without saying that electrons are going to be packing a lot more energy if you can harness them. Orders of magnitude.