Cobalt 60 would be a better salting medium.
Who would use them?
People who have prepared underground shelters to keep everyone they care about (not the little people they rule over, to be sure) from the fallout for the duration.
IOW: people who think that they would survive.
What a stupid idea. They should pick up the Neutron bomb technology and run with it. IIRC bomb goes boom and kills the people but leaves the building intact, then its safe to go in after 7 years.
Jimmah Cahtah cancelled this program for those reasons...
(too easy...)
Never happened in reality. It's a symbolic concept. Salt was way too valuable back then and not available in sufficient quantities (hence its value).
Any article that quotes Herbert W Armstrong immediately loses any credibility with anyone who escaped his draconian CULT.
Especially when it attempts to lionize the petty control freak.
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I don’t understand why anyone would want to increase the fallout of an area.
You can’t occupy it. The Chinese need land. They don’t want us or our politics. They want our dirt and water.
May the glow of Atom guide your path.
Your numbers are wrong I think.
Thallium 181 has a 1/2 life of only 3 seconds.
I think you mean Thallium 208 which is a daughter decay product of U233 production.
It would probably kill anyone loading the weapon unless heavily shielded.
The research being reported on, involves particle beams of tantalum. What if the objective involves more of an orbital beam weapon?
What effect would a beam of tantalum atoms, moving at a good percentage of the speed of light, have on satellites? Or ICBM warheads or electronics?
Basically top soil is a living organism that one could this destroy to starve a nation of crops
“The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water—the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.”
Hillary comes to mind.
Obama comes to mind.
Soros comes to mind.
Any number of ayatollahs, mullahs and imams come to mind.
The only good thing about a doomsday device is that it only can be used one time.
Tantalum 181 is stable.