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To: sea_urchin who wrote (12564)	3/19/2006 9:12:13 PM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 20039

> I read that they could get the necessary high temperatures by laser technology physicsweb.org >>The new 'fast ignition' technique has been demonstrated by Ryosuke Kodama and colleagues of Osaka University and researchers from the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Imperial College and the University of York in the UK. Like the conventional 'inertial confinement' method, fast ignition uses laser pulses to compress pellets of deuterium and tritium and the exploding plasma surrounding the pellets causes an equal and opposite implosion of the fuel. But unlike the old approach, in which the compressed fuel is heated by the collapse of accurately timed shock waves, fast ignition uses a second, shorter, laser pulse to start the fusion chain reaction.<<

To: sea_urchin who wrote (12564)	3/20/2006 6:49:48 AM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 20039

> mini-nukes which, as you know, can be made so small that they can be fired in an artillery round and, apparently, without a great deal of radiation active-duty.com >>The W54 warhead used on the Davy Crockett weighed just 51 pounds and was the smallest and lightest fission bomb (implosion type) ever deployed by the United States, with a variable explosive yield of 0.01 kilotons (equivalent to 10 tons of TNT, or two to four times as powerful as the ammonium nitrate bomb which destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995), or 0.02 kilotons-1 kiloton. A 58.6 pound variant—the B54—was used in the Special Atomic Demolition Munition (SADM), a nuclear land mine deployed in Europe, South Korea, Guam, and the United States from 1964-1989. <<

To: sea_urchin who wrote (12564)	3/20/2006 3:45:29 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20039

Laser-ignited fusion is still very much experimental. I await proof that al Qaeda or Bush has access to it in a practical sense. It exists in a few university/national lab facilities and takes a lot of precise equipment. iter.org science.howstuffworks.com 1998: inesap.org The explosion also leaves behind a lot more radioactivity than you credit it for. Those high-speed subatomic particles make that building metal and other materials radioactive. You WEREN'T going to bring down the WTC towers without telltale radioactivity left behind and spreading out. And small nukes have been around for many years. Read "nuclear artillery". They were how the US planned to stop all those Warsaw Pact tanks had they ever invaded Germany. The Allies were greatly outnumbered. This is also the reason the US refused to sign a "first use" agreement with the USSR.