Neutron bomb

A neutron is a hydrogen bomb, which is so constructed that a large part of the energy of the explosion is released in the form of neutron radiation , while the amount of radioactivity that is released remains small.



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*1 Mechanism  ==Mechanism [  edit ] == In a neutron bomb is allowed to much of the produced high-energy neutron radiation escape, instead of this to keep as much as possible within the bomb in order to strengthen the chain reaction. Therefore, the explosion force is relatively small, but the escaped neutrons have a very strong penetrating power, and can therefore in the area very much damage to living matter and electronics application while it is extremely difficult to create an effective shield there; much more difficult than, for example, gamma radiation . ==Application to electronics [  edit ] == Neutron bombs have not yet been used in practice, but it is used as a protection against intercontinental missile . The neutron bomb would damage the sensitive electronics of incoming missiles. ==Application against armored [  edit ] == Neutron Bombs are suitable as an offensive weapon against armored troops. The armor of tanks is able to withstand very strong explosions, so a neutron has to have, in this application only of its radiation. Due to the very nature of penetrating neutrons using a neutron maximizes the effects of radiation for a given amount of core material.
 * 2 Application against electronics
 * 3 Application against armored
 * Only four people dead and buildings leave?
 * 5 Dutch politics and the neutron

The use of radiation to cause rapid death, however, has one major disadvantage. Normally, a radiation dose of 6 gray lethal aid. [https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.co.uk&sl=nl&u=https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bronvermelding&usg=ALkJrhgxfVjhka-ThkduY23W8N9FaOQ_IA#Bron_gevraagd <sup class="noprint nopopups" style="line-height:1;">[source? ]] The first hours after exposure victims observes, however, still nothing. To cause immediate incapacitate theorem is a neutron bomb constructed to deliver a radiation dose of 80 Gray. With a neutron bomb of 1 kiloton is the crew of a T-72 tank off at a distance of 700 meters. This is far beyond the 360 ​​meters that reaches an ordinary atomic bomb. The lethal dose of radiation of a neutron bomb reaches far beyond the effects of the heat and the shock wave, even for unprotected troops.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In addition to the attenuation of the radiation by thinning, the neutron radiation is also by the atmosphere absorbed. It is said that after about 500 meters the radiation factor 10 is weakened. [https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.co.uk&sl=nl&u=https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bronvermelding&usg=ALkJrhgxfVjhka-ThkduY23W8N9FaOQ_IA#Bron_gevraagd <sup class="noprint nopopups" style="line-height:1;">[source? ]] Some are therefore only small neutron bombs effectively. [https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.co.uk&sl=nl&u=https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bronvermelding&usg=ALkJrhgxfVjhka-ThkduY23W8N9FaOQ_IA#Bron_gevraagd <sup class="noprint nopopups" style="line-height:1;">[source? ]] Others, including the inventor of the neutron bomb, Samuel Cohen, argue that neutron bombs a lot may have greater range. [https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.co.uk&sl=nl&u=https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bronvermelding&usg=ALkJrhgxfVjhka-ThkduY23W8N9FaOQ_IA#Bron_gevraagd <sup class="noprint nopopups" style="line-height:1;">[source? ]] It is possible that a large part of the absorption of neutrons in the atmosphere is caused by water vapor. The range would be much greater in arid areas (desert) than in humid areas. ==Only people dead and buildings leave? <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the campaign Stop the neutron bomb, by the CPN Dutch peace movement controlled, was with one-liners argued that a neutron bomb a building let alone, but all residents kills. This was somewhat exaggerated; a bomb of one kiloton, as mentioned above, would in large circumference also quite leave nothing of the buildings.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Cohen saw an application in neutron bombs would explode at 10 km altitude: this could be a defense against a major military offensive. While the local population, for several days in air-raid shelters spend, is a high neutron used in the atmosphere in order to kill the enemy on the surface. When the shelters are leaving the buildings intact; all life on the surface (including vegetation) is slain. Similar neutron bombs were also seen as powerful weapons against an enemy fleet and would also be very effective against nuclear submarines .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Nevertheless, it was a strategic military objected to the neutron bomb that frequently appeared in the discussions: this weapon would lead to lowering of the nuclear threshold, because the "less harmful" and therefore would be less daunting to use. ==The Dutch politics and the neutron <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Not only with the CPN, but also in the IKV in the Netherlands in 1977 was a campaign against nuclear weapons began, the development of the neutron bomb aroused much commotion. IKV board Laurens Hogebrinkput his lights on at the Pentagon . In the autumn of 1978 he published in Reformed Netherlands a series of articles include the delayed assembly of the neutron bomb that had to be defeated political resistance to US and European allies. The neutronenbomkwestie also led to the resignation of Defense Minister Roelof Kruisinga .