Re: 100 megaton bombs atop Saturn V rockets

From: Carey Sublette (careysub_at_earthling.net)
Date: 07/23/04 

Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 13:15:49 GMT

"Pat Flannery" <flanner@daktel.com> wrote in message
news:10fr0gloo2nk02c@corp.supernews.com...
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> Carey Sublette wrote:
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> >In the gigaton classical super scheme the device would essentially be a
> >cryotank of liquid deuterium, like the Saturn upper stage or the Shuttle
> >tank. Nearly all of this is fuel. The energy content of deuterium is much
> >higher than fissionable material, by almost 5-to-1 (82.2 kt/kg).
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> This sounds like a description of the Doomsday Machine the Soviets were
> considering mounting in the converted freighter vessel;

This is reported in the "Secrets of War" video, "The Strangelove Factor"
(Google on this is you are interested). The documentary seems quite good so
I accept the claim, but I wish I had a more "academically citable" source
for this information. Does anyone out there know of a written source about
this scheme?

I believe the design was just a giant multi-stage TN device, with a cobalt
or tantalum case to make it a global radiologic weapon.

> the one that was
> going to be so powerful that it was expected to initiate fusion in the
> hydrogen of the sea water near it on detonation.

This is physically impossible.

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