US reanimate neutron weapons program

In the following decades, one of the most promising species weapons in space will be a neutron gun, transmits Lenta.ru report Statement by US Deputy Secretary of Defense Mike Griffin.

Directional energy is more than just big lasers. It is important. Powerful microwave effects can destroy electronics. The same with neutral beam systems,

said Griffin.

He recalled that the Pentagon’s 90 considered neutron weapons "for use in space anti-missile systems." According to him, such a weapon can be “useful in a wide variety of environments,” and its use “leaves no evidence whatsoever or even what caused the damage.”

We must not lose our way ... with a number of other technologies that were started on 1980 and 1990 and are now available for renewal ... I will very much welcome other approaches that were not at the center attention in recent years or recent decades,

declared griffin.

In 2005-2009, the engineer-physicist Griffin served as the head of NASA. He is the author of many scientific papers on the design of spacecraft.

Comments

[newcomer]

I remember somewhere in the sunset of the USSR, I read in the magazine about the neutron bomb. either we did it, or were going to, I don’t remember.

[aszzz888]

So yes, that was. Sound now with you, but not in good times - newcomer (garik)

[newcomer]

"This trouble we are experiencing." something like this.

[Tatyana]

The first neutron weapon in the form of artillery shells appeared for the first time in Britain, in my opinion, in the spring of 1978. And in the USSR, their developments urgently began in response, but the USSR did not succeed for a long time. Nobody then knew the secret of the principle of operation of neutron weapons in the form of artillery shells, as such.
The British began to put pressure on the USSR internationally, and the USSR in some ways even diplomatically sag before the West, which the USSR could not be allowed to do.
As a result, at the end of 1978 - the beginning of 1979, Brezhnev announced that the USSR knew the secret of neutron weapons. And that this secret is so simple that even a simple Soviet housewife can guess about it.
Following Britain, we ourselves invented our neutron weapon.

[Major Yurik]

US reanimate neutron weapons program

Oh ho! And who will then reanimate the Yankees, and their lackeys too! It is not clear and not a fact!

[Engineer]

the principle is like a two-stage hydrogen bomb, only the container does not come from uranium, but from tungsten, for example, and there is no plutonium fuse

[Nikolaevich I]

Quote: Engineer

for example, and there is no plutonium fuse

That's just the “hitch!” There was a “plutonium fuse”! And this fact was one of the main arguments for criticizing the neutron weapon. Could not at that time "fool" "pure" thermonuclear charge! And now they’re “trying” ... they even say that there are some successes, but at the moment there is no “clean” thermonuclear munition!

[sharp-lad]

Not from tungsten, but from beryllium.

[siberalt]

And what, the neutron bomb ceased to be nuclear? There, the proportion of the damaging factors in the neutron radiation strontium changes, but the rest remain at least at a slightly lower power.

[dauria]

And what, the neutron bomb ceased to be nuclear? There, the proportion of the damaging factors in the neutron emission side changes.

They refused it. And not from some "moral" ones, but because of purely pragmatic ones. The power of the explosion is a few kilotons, the radius of damage to people from penetrating radiation coincided with the radius of the shock wave. There's no point. The idea was - there are no people, the infrastructure is intact. It didn’t work out.

[NordOst16]

But it is extremely effective in space, where there is no atmosphere due to which it is possible to generate a shock wave. And the neutron flux will destroy the electronics and cause a premature incomplete fission reaction in the munition. Apparently, not everything is fine with the precise guidance of the kinetic interceptor.

[Fedorov]

Yes, what a "sunset"? I went to school in 1980, and already from the first grade I knew that it was. My father redrawed the drawings of explosions from an old military school notebook. So there was no particular secret. Plus the teachings, sirens, bomb shelters, they took up and drove off. Everyone knew perfectly well. And we were even ready ... to end world imperialism
And the rest - SOI number two, were already under Reagan.
And I think Russia is not in the role of catching up.

[newcomer]

Are you sure that everything outlined by you regarding the neutron bomb?

[Fedorov]

With regards to it was in every way.

[newcomer]

confess, intrigued. had to google. so the release of bombs (judging from an Internet), began in 81g. and sites like VO weren’t. Your dad’s interesting notebook.

[sharp-lad]

At school (somewhere around the end of the 80s), I learned about neutron weapons and their features, as well as ways to protect against damaging factors, in the lessons of NVP and physics. They also talked about the miracle of tablets from the first-aid kit, which gave time to elementary and merciless revenge when defeated by nuclear (thermonuclear, neutron and simply "dirty", with a cobalt shell) bombs.

[NEXUS]

Quote: newbie

I remember somewhere in the sunset of the USSR, I read in the magazine about the neutron bomb. either we did it, or were going to, I don’t remember.

The creator - Samuel Cohen (1921-2010), an American physicist, is known precisely as the "father of the neutron bomb."

For a long time, experiments did not reach the stage of production of serial neutron munitions. The technology of its production was first developed in the USA in the second half of the 1970s. Now the technology for the production of such weapons also possess Russia, France and China. Neutron guns have also been created in Russia. In particular, the Curiosity rover is equipped with a Russian neutron gun, and although the output power of the neutron gun mounted on the Mars rover is too large for a laboratory instrument, but small for a weapon, this is already a prototype of future combat neutron guns.

[newcomer]

Thank you, NEXUS.

[NordOst16]

The king bomb was a neutron bomb.

[Nikolaevich I]

Quote: newbie

either we did it, or were going to, I don’t remember.

The "neutron wave" was raised by the mericosa ...

[newcomer]

is it clear now. I’m talking about what I read in the journal Science and Technology.

[Paranoid50]

Quote: newbie

read in the neutron bomb magazine

It was the case, I also remember, the noise was ... As a result, they stole the topic.

[newcomer]

Yes. closed the topic as for military purposes, the damage was relatively unfortunate. but for civilian infostructure itself. for radiation from a neutron bomb passed through 3/4 of a year.

[NordOst16]

Well, it depends on what constructions were on the ground. If they contained a lot of cobalt, then the place of impact was still shining for a long time.

[newcomer]

are there so many places on the map of a single gos.va with cobalt greens.

[NordOst16]

metal structures can be

[newcomer]

colleague, I'm sorry, but you can be more specific. either there or not. I personally hear for the first time that cobalt is used in building materials. Do you know something, why do not you specify?

[NordOst16]

I agree, I fell for cobalt. But besides it, under the influence of fast neutrons, long-lived iron isotopes can form.
And the neutron charge itself does not do without nuclear initiation

[sharp-lad]

A metal cutting tool, for example.

[Anthony]

In the early 70's, they made a type of hydrogen bomb of low power, but with a large output of radiant energy. Sakharov designed

[DimanC]

In Armenia, they say, an accelerator of neutral particles remains. Toward the close of the USSR they managed to build, but they didn’t test

[rotmistr60]

and its use "leaves no evidence of who or even what caused the damage»

But this is probably for Americans one of the important properties. Having such a weapon, strike, and then shrug hands on a blue eye and wonder - who did this?

[Warrior with machine gun]

no, rather stick a finger at someone at the moment you need and yell, "that's all of them!"

[Cxnumx]

Quote: rotmistr60

But this is probably for Americans one of the important properties. Having such a weapon, strike, and then shrug hands on a blue eye and wonder - who did this?

ours, too, needs to resume developing a system to change the weather ... do you have hurricanes and floods? pichalka ...

[Mountain shooter]

Victims of EG! Powerful neutron irradiation will cause a sharp increase in the concentration of short-lived isotopes in the attacked object. Guessing exactly what dealt a blow - will not have to. They stopped teaching physics at school?

[andrej-shironov]

Eugene, why be surprised that most young people do not know what neutron radiation is and what its harm is. And how to fulfill the dream: to capture the enemy’s infrastructure intact without a living population. Now more and more schools study the Bible and management than the exact sciences.

[sharp-lad]

The world will fall not from wars, but from the invasion of "creaks"! But surely, it has already bred like locusts!

[Engineer]

very interesting how they want to get a neutron beam without nuclear or thermonuclear fusion

[Nikolaevich I]

Quote: Engineer

how do they want to get a neutron beam without nuclear or thermonuclear fusion

Well ... there are so-called neutron "guns" (from the "area" of beam weapons). There are also schemes without the participation of a "nuclear reactor" ("accelerator" type ... based on a plasma focus chamber ...)

[Gogia]

Quote: Mountain Shooter

Victims of EG! Powerful neutron irradiation will cause a sharp increase in the concentration of short-lived isotopes in the attacked object.

Why only short-lived? Also, long-lived ones - this is how the neutron will sit down :)))
In principle, the so-called X-ray lasers ... They just do things like that.

[Rostislav]

Everything is numb to him.

[Igor V]

I remember a song from the time of youth:
We take Reagan for ..opu
And together we say to Ron: no!
No need to bomb us in Europe,
Come on, better jeans or bread.
No neutron bomb, peace I want
Glory to Leonid Ilyich!
Something like this. If necessary, we will sing to Trump, we will sing to Supertrampu!

[bald]

Leaves no evidence - how else. Fucking axioms.

[Wolka]

the Yankees are furious in impotent rage, rushing more and more to extremes and scaring the world with horror stories, but they still can’t understand that their madness under any circumstances will not go unpunished ...

[shans2]

Russia already has prototypes of beam weapons. Putin just did not say)

[faterdom]

In my opinion, special ammunition was also made for Pechora-2m: in the case of massive waves of enemy aircraft (bombers with fighters), such a neutron is launched in their direction, and is blown up in the thick of such a "wave." Hard radiation really quickly kills crews nearby, EMP burns out all the electronics of airplanes and ammunition.

[gippernano]

Lazarus was put on bugs, the railgun was placed on the somvolt, the neutron weapon remained to be reanimated and mounted on whatever scooter. Right in front of my eyes, power grew.

[Old26]

Quote: newbie

confess, intrigued. had to google. so the release of bombs (judging from an Internet), began in 81g. and sites like VO weren’t. Your dad’s interesting notebook.

And most importantly at home.. Most likely the usual compendium for conducting classes with L.Ch. on the topic of the use of weapons of mass destruction ...

[Operator]

Deputy Secretary of Defense Griffin - equivalent to deputy. Minister of Defense Borisov

[komis55]

I’m full of energy for the entire program, I need the element until the fall, but I don’t know which one.

[askme]

Here are cartoons so cartoons ... Bullshit with experience .....

[Anthony]

Saw the railgun first!))