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Stimulated Gamma Decay Weapons
ExRex writes "New Scientist is reporting on a USDOD project to produce super explosives. 'An exotic kind of nuclear explosive being developed by the US Department of Defense could blur the critical distinction between conventional and nuclear weapons. The work has also raised fears that weapons based on this technology could trigger the next arms race.'"
This research cannot by allowed to go forward. We all know what happens when gamma rays are used in weapons!
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What country is going to be able to stop the might of a vast army of Hulks once they get this gamma-process down pat?
The only challenge is to get them to stop smashing any tank they see.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Gosh...
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Yes, but all I want to know is if I can get them mounted on the heads of a few sharks I have.
birds and snakes, an aeroplane...
um...
gamma weapons blow us away?
Everybody sing: "It's the end of the world as we know it..."
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.
I can just picture the next headline at The Onion:
Iran Sends Weapons Inspectors to US to Search for Weapons of Mass Destruction
The decay thing is a stroke of genius. If you set the half-life right, the mighty Hulks will march out, smash puny enemy army, and by the time they are about to turn around and smash puny you, they rot into a pile of goo.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
This is the best part of the article: "The hafnium explosive could be extremely powerful. One gram of fully charged hafnium isomer could store more energy than 50 kilograms of TNT. Miniature missiles could be made with warheads that are far more powerful than existing conventional weapons, giving massively enhanced firepower to the armed forces using them."
In fifty years, we'll be defending our right to bare hafnium tipped bullets. God Bless America.
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If I hear one more hulk joke, I'm going to get very angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.
> Anyone still asking where you really have to search if you want to find WMD? Small hint: not in the middle east...
Current theory is that Saddam's dog ate them.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
With a little work, these nuclear isomers could be worked into a chewing gum that could give you icy-fresh breath and lightening bolts that shoot out of your mouth. The ravers would eat up!
With a half-life of only 31 years, the archeologists would have to work fast.
[the US has] never invaded a neighbor for oil
*cough*
Watch any news lately?
*cough* USA invades Iraq TWICE in 12 years *cough*
No, we'd never do so for oil. No, never!
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Iraq? Neighbor?
Seen any maps lately?
And you really should see someoune about that cough^H^H^H^H^H liberal bias.
everything in moderation
The slogal "war for oil!" was made up by extremists to appeal to simpletons and for them to put on the signs that they wave.
True. Because "No Blood for Extension of American Neo-Colonial Hegemony!" was both difficult to chant and explain. Handing out annotated copies of 1984 was also prohibitive.
However, once you aim even a whiff of intellectual penetration at it, the "it is a war for oil" claims vanish in a puff of illogic.
Of course. It is just the simplest explanation once you've eliminated the also baseless "Iraq is an immediate threat" claim. Obviously the reasons for the war were much larger than just some silly oil fields. The portions of the adminstration with brains think much bigger and longer term than that. Though it may seem as though Cheney's energy plan was designed under the assumption that we'd have access to all that friendly Iraqi oil, and it could be argued this suggests oil was the motivation for war, I just figure that the decision to go to war with Iraq had already been made, and he was just making plans based on that knowledge. Call it a happy side effect, which I'm sure is what everyone with crude-oil-colored dollar signs in their eyes is calling it. Which just happens to be a bunch of the adminstration's friends, but I'm serious, that's really just a happy coincidence.
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The U.S. is bound by international treaty not to use Chemical or Biological weapons, ever, under any circumstances.
Yeah, and the U.S. is known for following international law.
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