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- Is 'FOGBANK@ a real stuff or made up?
I was just wondering if anyone had considered what FOGBANK might be, the 'extra magic ingredient' in US nuclear arsenal?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOGBANK
I can't make out if it is real stuff or just a 'fog bank' of misinformation for potential adversaries;.
Maybe the equivalent of 'red mercury'. The Soviets beat the US to inventing a fictitious material? (Ironic, if you think about it, USSR beat the US to 'not making' something! :lol: )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_mercury
I mean, if there really is stuff called 'FOGBANK', from a scientific point of view what could it be? Something which provides some active benefit following the rupture of a fission explosion. If the compression of the fusion components is mainly by x-rays, maybe it is some material containing elements that have high x-ray emission spectra in an energy range of interest?
It's feasible I suppose. Sounds more like the outcome of a cold-war on misinformation to me?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOGBANK
I can't make out if it is real stuff or just a 'fog bank' of misinformation for potential adversaries;.
Maybe the equivalent of 'red mercury'. The Soviets beat the US to inventing a fictitious material? (Ironic, if you think about it, USSR beat the US to 'not making' something! :lol: )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_mercury
I mean, if there really is stuff called 'FOGBANK', from a scientific point of view what could it be? Something which provides some active benefit following the rupture of a fission explosion. If the compression of the fusion components is mainly by x-rays, maybe it is some material containing elements that have high x-ray emission spectra in an energy range of interest?
It's feasible I suppose. Sounds more like the outcome of a cold-war on misinformation to me?