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China’s non-nuclear hydrogen bomb generates fireball to burn targets at 1800°F: Report
Interesting Engineering ^ | April 20, 2025 | Christopher McFadden

Posted on 04/22/2025 8:31:42 AM PDT by Twotone

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1 posted on 04/22/2025 8:31:42 AM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

Sounds to me like it could be used to burn large swaths of civilians.


2 posted on 04/22/2025 8:33:18 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Twotone

Something that small could take out submarines or ships without them seeing it coming.


3 posted on 04/22/2025 8:36:03 AM PDT by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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To: Twotone

when I was little I used to make hydrogen “bombs”

I would generate hydrogen with aluminum, water and lye

fill up balloons, light the end and let it go.

they would float up in the air and explode.

Great fun for an 9 year old


4 posted on 04/22/2025 8:36:32 AM PDT by algore
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To: Tell It Right

Sounds like internet videos of welding people into their apartments, right after the Wuhan release…

More BS from the Chi-Coms.


5 posted on 04/22/2025 8:37:24 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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6 posted on 04/22/2025 8:39:23 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: Tell It Right

drop one on wuhan


7 posted on 04/22/2025 8:40:10 AM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (on)
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To: Twotone

did mitch mcconnell give them the tech


8 posted on 04/22/2025 8:40:57 AM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (on)
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To: Twotone

Mongolian BBQ!..................


9 posted on 04/22/2025 8:44:22 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Twotone

Sounds like the neutron bomb that Jimmy Carter talked back in the late 70s.


10 posted on 04/22/2025 8:46:31 AM PDT by Baldwin
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To: Twotone

How does it affect heat seeking missiles?


11 posted on 04/22/2025 8:48:15 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: Twotone

So it’s a standard bomb, not to be confused in any way with a hydrogen fusion bomb.


12 posted on 04/22/2025 8:49:31 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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To: Twotone

When Hydrogen burns it creates water. I wonder if that means when the bomb goes off does it extinguishes itself?


13 posted on 04/22/2025 8:50:02 AM PDT by antidemoncrat ( )
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To: Baldwin

No… the neutron bomb was a fusion based H-bomb. A thermonuclear bomb around 2kt, tweaked to push out an unusually huge blast of radiation.

This new “hydrogen” bomb is a standard bomb that uses hydrogen in a standard fuel burning model, No fusion, no fission spark plug.


14 posted on 04/22/2025 8:56:37 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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To: Baldwin
Sounds like the neutron bomb that Jimmy Carter talked back in the late 70s.

Nothing like it. The neutron bomb is a low yield nuclear weapon designed to emit heavy radiation.

This is a non-radioactive chemical explosion weapon much like a thermobaric bomb.

15 posted on 04/22/2025 8:58:07 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: Baldwin

Not even close. How did you come to that conclusion?


16 posted on 04/22/2025 8:58:43 AM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

Mitch McConnell and his wife received a gift of at least $5 million from his Chinese father-in-law. And the father-in-law has very close ties to the Chinese Communist Party.

So, yeah. A good rule of thumb is “He who pays the piper calls the tune.”

💰💰💰💰💰

Side point: McConnell could have done the ethical thing, and declined the gift until he retired. But “ethics” is a forbidden word in Congress.


17 posted on 04/22/2025 9:02:42 AM PDT by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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To: Twotone

China detonates their own design hand grenade.

Shocker.


18 posted on 04/22/2025 9:07:42 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: Baldwin

A neutron bomb still uses thermonuclear processes. This use chemicals processes to generate an explosions. More like a thermobaric bomb.


19 posted on 04/22/2025 9:09:13 AM PDT by Reily
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t also acts like a kind of thermal chain reaction that lasts as long as it has fuel to sustain it. Needs oxygen to sustain it, too. Magnesium hydride is MgH2.
20 posted on 04/22/2025 9:25:14 AM PDT by Rio
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