Fourth Generation Nuclear Weapons (FGNW)

10-20-05:
Fourth Generation Nuclear Weapons: Military effectiveness and collateral effects
http://www.arxiv.org/PS_cache/physic...10/0510071.pdf

What do you think?

This is definatley a concern.

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Any nuclear weapon detonated below the surface of the Earth creates a
radioactive hot spot, containing the highlyradioactive
fissionproducts,
as
well as the fissile materials that have not been fissioned during the explosion
— that is more than 90% of the initial fissilematerials
content of the
warhead.5 This leads to numerous problems, especially if the weapon contained
plutonium. Indeed, most of the unfissioned
plutonium left in the
cavity created by an underground nuclear explosion can later be recovered,
possibly by terrorists, and reused to manufacture nuclear weapons. This is
the problem of “plutonium mines,” which is a major nuclear proliferation
concern in countries such as Kazakhstan [10] and Algeria, where numerous
plutoniumbased
nuclear explosives were detonated underground.

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Was this for real?

The email address domain from the first page of the pdf was for vtx.ch a Swiss hosting company not a research organisation.

Anyway, paranoia left behind, I didn't think anyone was anywhere near to having workable amounts of antimatter for use in any way. 10 - 20 years for Sci Fi tech like that is a bit scary (if it's real research).

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I didn't think anyone was anywhere near to having workable amounts of antimatter for use in any way. 10 - 20 years for Sci Fi tech like that is a bit scary (if it's real research).

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You know I was thinking the same thing ...when I saw the word "antimatter" in a drawing in this pdf I thought "Star Trek" for a second ... I didn't think that was in our reach for at least some time.

And if you then think about all the instabillity they had in those episodes with that "antimatter"

...mmm paranoia not misplaced :D

C.

That was a really interesting paper. I'm glad I read it considering how FGNW have been a rising topic. Now that I have a better understanding of how they work, they do actually seem like a tactically superior alternative to convential explosives. Although, Aspman makes a good point in regards to the authenticity of the paper. Good find.

It appears that the Author is legit, Andre Gsponer, he shows up on a lot of sites that are into this stuff.

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Antimatter Technology for Military Purposes:
Excerpts from a Dossier and Assessments of Physicist

Edited by Marek Thee
International Peace Research Institute, Oslo

Published in Bulletin of Peace Proposals, Vol. 19. Nos. 3--4, 1988.

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http://cui.unige.ch/isi/sscr/phys/antim-Thee.html

Hey the communicator Kirk used sure looks like today's cell phones no :p (flip it open and talk)

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http://arxiv.org/

http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0510071