Nuclear Grenade

Of course there is also the mystery of the red mercury bomb. That would be a thermonuclear device that skips the fission trigger and goes directly to fusion. Supposedly you could make a thermonuclear bomb the size of a baseball with this technology.

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This seems silly to me. There is a minimal amount of fissionable material that is require for a nuclear reaction. Halving that, or quartering it, won't produce a nuclear reaction, nor a 'half-reaction'.

Could it be that the 'grenade' was a mini-dirty-bomb? That's feasible.

Just had to ask this:

The smaller the nuclear detonation, the smaller the blast. Right?
SO if u then threw a nuke-grenade, would the mushroom cloud be reaaally tiny?

The smallest nuclear device is actually on a miniature scale.
About the size of a strike anywhere match-head.

The CIA built them into the ends of Qtips in the late 70s using the same principle as the strike anywhere match to ignite them. They were impregnated with an Oxidizer which when mixed with ear wax caused a spontaneous combustion event triggering detonation. Many of the victims were mistaken for cases of spontaneous human combustion.

Originally posted by CaptAvatar

And there isn't a poster, including you, who really knows anything about radioactive isomers and whether or not they can be used as an explosive device. In fact, it is my understanding that halfnium would be good for power generation BECAUSE YOU CAN'T CREATE A WEAPON OUT OF IT.

...or maybe you can. This one is still open to debate. And soem of us have been following this for some time; all you need to do is google.

Originally posted by CaptAvatar
And what the heck is an X-RAY detonator?

An x-ray source to trigger energy release from an isomer with stored energy.

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I've been working on designing a sort of RPG nuke but I've been running into problems with Critical mass, Etc. I would say that Nuclear grenades would be useful if used in grenade launchers and the like but it would be suicide or impractical at the very least to throw them by hand. This about Hafnium Isomers sounds promising.

Originally posted by FredT
This if build would have to rank as one of the dumbest weapons of al time. I mean are we now designing munitions for suicide bombers?

Nuclear grenades might be sold or provided to suicide bombers from Russia or China?

But, wait....they might already have access to suitcase nukes.

A nuclear grenade the size of a suitcase?

Anyway, we used nuclear land mines in Europe during the Cold War, to deter Russian tanks from invading farther west than Poland and Czecholslovakia. It worked.

Originally posted by Eisenhorn
Just had to ask this:

The smaller the nuclear detonation, the smaller the blast. Right?
SO if u then threw a nuke-grenade, would the mushroom cloud be reaaally tiny?

The radioactive shrapnel would kill you....sooner or later.

The Davy Crockett and W54 Nuclear Warhead

The Davy Crockett (shown here at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland in March 1961) was the smallest and lightest nuclear weapon ever deployed by the U.S. military. It was designed for use in Europe against Soviet troop formations.

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The nuclear land mines created by the British to stop Russian tank attacks was a seven ton casing.

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If they can misplace atomic bombs imagine misplacing a crate or two of these type of grenades, heck even reversing engineering one would haste the end of the world...

that would make having us kill each other for population control easier. A world war is almost a guarantee at that point if enough can be made. Typical Khazar / illuminati tactics. The NWO has a thing for better weapons we can use on each other.

Sounds like someone read "Starship troopers" one to many times. Not only did they have micro nukes they had talking hand grenades
You really don't need micro nukes since thermobaric weapons already exist. And do they job quite well, just ask the Chechens.
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The Soviet armed forces extensively developed FAE weapons,[28] such as the RPO-A, and are known to have used them in Chechnya.[29]
The Russian armed forces have developed thermobaric ammunition variants for several of their weapons, such as the TGB-7V thermobaric grenade with a lethality radius of 10 metres (33 ft), which can be launched from a RPG-7. The GM-94 is a 43 mm pump-action grenade launcher which is designed mainly to fire thermobaric grenades for close quarters combat. With the grenade weighing 250 grams (8.8 oz) and holding a 160 grams (5.6 oz) explosive mixture, its lethality radius is 3 metres (9.8 ft).[30] The RPO-A and upgraded RPO-M are infantry-portable RPGs designed to fire thermobaric rockets. The RPO-M for instance, has a thermobaric warhead with similar destructive capabilities as a 152 mm High explosive fragmentation artillery shell.[31] The RSgH-1 and the RSgH-2 are thermobaric variants of the RPG-27 and RPG-26 respectively. Of the two, the RSgH-1 is the more powerful variant, with its warhead having a 10 metres (33 ft) lethality radius and producing the same effects of about 6 kg (13 lb) of TNT.[32] The RMG is a further derivative of the RPG-26 that uses a tandem-charge warhead, whereby the pre-cursor HEAT warhead blasts an opening for the main thermobaric charge to enter and detonate inside.[33]

Originally posted by SevenThunders
Of course there is also the mystery of the red mercury bomb. That would be a thermonuclear device that skips the fission trigger and goes directly to fusion. Supposedly you could make a thermonuclear bomb the size of a baseball with this technology.

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Actually you can...

Thermonuclear is simply the process and has nothing to do with size.

With two opposed conical shaped charges using a lithium liner at detonation these hollow charge heads smash two molten slugs of lithium into a vacuum cavity between them where at the centre is located a very tiny amount of HEU or Pu239. We are talking grams of fissile metal. But around it or infused with it is also Lithium Deuteride possibly with a small amout of Beryllium oxide. Even smarter is to replace the Lithium Deuteride with a hydrate of Trittium.

The synchronus implosion of these lithium liners at speeds of 10 kilometres per second and pressures of 100,000 atmospheres or above the molten Lithium strips electrons from the Deuteride causing a massive flash of X-rays in the vicinity of 17 MeV.

The resulting release of fast neutrons mimics the conditions required to ignite chain reaction in the Plutonium or HEU target. In effect it tricks the target into responding as if it were part of a crittical mass without the crittical mass being present.

To give an idea 100-150 grams of HEU could cause a half kiloton blast and incinerate a radius of 500-600 metres. .

Originally posted by bronxbull
that would make having us kill each other for population control easier. A world war is almost a guarantee at that point if enough can be made. Typical Khazar / illuminati tactics. The NWO has a thing for better weapons we can use on each other.

The coming Depopulation Wars will utilize weapons' systems far more advanced and much cleaner than outdated nuclear warheads.

handheld nuclear grenades would do more damage than good. what would be beneficial is a smaller modified rpg carrying a very small nuke payload.
" so you're saying they're holding the house and keeping our men back? meh, just use one of the nuke rpgs"

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Red mercury is in fact Mercury (II) Iodide which is a superconductor. Mercury plays a role as a catalyst for lowering energy barriers in ion plasma, because every time it sheds an electron it fluoresces and the resulting collisions between electrons and photons generate gamma radiation.

I have never heard of nor do I have any idea how it is applied if at all to a thremonuclear reaction, but anything is possible.

I have to correct my earlier post that colision of Lithium with Deuterium in a tactical thermonuclear weapon releases 14.1 MeV. I am unsure of the energy release if one replaced deuterium with Trittium but i would expect a threefold increase in energy release.

One can cause a speck of fissile uranium or plutonium to explode if one wishes and the size of the explosion is ordained by the quantity of fissile material detonated.

In essence one is using chemical explosive to slam together material at such speeds and pressures that one triggers a fusion reacion which then triggers a fission response in plutonium or uranium

Anyone with a home made cyclotron and a few kilograms of unenriched Uranium oxide, a little Beryllium, some Lithium and Deuterium/Trittium could make themselves a nuclear weapon in 6 months

Let's not forget Cobalt salted cased nukes.

An 8 year old thread brought back from the dead.

Gamma Ray Weapons are.....likely built and tested by now.

"Hot fusion by opposing Mach 10 detonation fronts." Tech. Report GU-960 (1958), written by Thomas Poulter describes how to make a nuclear hand grenade

My first impression is that the soldier deploying said grenade had better have a "good arm".