From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Mon Oct 14 2002 - 14:59:53 MDT
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
> Can we have some evidence here? What is this "red mercury" stuff?
> (I know I've heard the phrase before but I'm unfamiliar with any
> physics that makes it reasonable that you can get a 2 MT bomb the size
> of a baseball.)
Imo the 'growing evidence' would seem to imply red mercury was an urban
legend/hoax, perpetrated by mostly Russian sources. It's supposed to be a
reddish liquid/semisolid, created by irradiation of mercury in an
accelerator. It's supposed to be a neutron reflector/multiplier.
I'm also pretty much unfamiliar with the physics as well. Until evidence
is presented, I'm sticking with the 'hoax' hypothesis.
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