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To: Junior
It is just a much dirtier version of a standard nuclear weapon.

Actually, just the opposite. It is a battlefield tactical weapon with a low yield blast that emits large doses of neutron energy on the target with minimal amounts of long lived fission byproducts. The idea is to kill people (and other living things) but not cause long term radioactivity at the blast site allowing troops to safely enter the area after a few days. If anything, it's a "clean" bomb. ;~(

See Neutron Bomb

53 posted on 10/10/2006 9:10:07 AM PDT by Ditto
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To: Ditto
Correct. And a neutron bomb is very, very detectable by, er, "national resources."

We used to have a fair number of 2-5 kt warheads fielded. This wasn't even that. I'm voting "fizzle" but I haven't seen any hard data yet.

61 posted on 10/10/2006 9:29:39 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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