The plot thickens: (mutters) (please note the last paragraph)
2004-10-10 15:24 * CHINA * RUSSIA * SUMMIT * DOCUMENT *
JOINT POLITICAL DECLARATION TO BE SIGNED AFTER RUSSIAN-CHINESE SUMMIT
BEIJING, October 10 (RIA Novosti's Alexei Yefimov) - On results of the coming Russian-Chinese summit in Beijing, a joint political declaration will be signed, Russian ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to China Igor Rogachev said at a press conference.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to China will take place on October 14-16.
"On the summit results, a solid political document will be adopted, which will assess the modern stage of bilateral relations, sum up the realization of the good-neighborliness, friendship and cooperation treaty and outline the course for deepening interaction in the political and economic spheres and on the international arena," said Mr. Rogachev.
The main result of the economic component of the visit, said the ambassador, will be adoption of a new document - the Russian-Chinese plan of actions for 2005-2008.
"Realization of this plan will in many respects define the character and level of our interaction in practical spheres for the near future," said Mr. Rogachev.
He called the coming visit by the Russian president to China the main event of the year in bilateral relations.
"This visit has a great significance from the point of view of strategic partnership deepening for the long-term prospect," said Mr. Rogachev.
He noted that the meeting of the Russian and Chinese leaders would give a possibility to exchange opinions on a wide spectrum of issues of realization of the good-neighborliness, friendship and cooperation treaty both in bilateral relations and on key international problems.
The Good-neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation Treaty was signed by Russia and China on July 16, 2001.
With account for the current international situation, stressed Mr. Rogachev, very important will be the discussion of tasks of joint fight against terrorism, of the situation in Iraq, on the Korean peninsula, in the Middle East, and issues of strategic stability.
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MORE ON RED MERCURY
posted on the Final Phase by "some average joe". This was also posted on another forum, yesterday.
Re: Red Mercury More info I just found, any one here thinks this sounds reasonable?
Red Mercury, as far as I know it, is NOT detonatable by itself.
I believe this is a smokescreen to keep it from being understood by the public.
What it is, is an efficient TAMPER, making possible the successful IMPLOSION FISSIONING of MINISCULE AMOUNTS of PLUTONIUM.
No more the still-fabled "critical mass" of around 35 lbs of fissile material!
It is MERCURIC-STYBIC HEPTOXIDE - Hg2Sb2O7
And its crystal structure has a lattice of little hollow spaces, into which plutonium atoms fit snugly, and are probably drifted in by a combination of gas-diffusion and/or electrolysis.
The heavy atoms of Mercury (Hg) and Antimony (Sb) reflect back neutrons into the mass at the same time they hold the plutonium while it is fissioning, by inertia of their heavy nuclei having too tremendous MOMENTUM by their implosion of a shell lined with Hg2Sb2O7 saturated with Pu, using immense electromagnetic fields generated by explosive FLUX-COMPRESSION GENERATORS (FCGs), and giving many times more velocity and hundreds or even thousands of times more energy density of implosion, than any chemical implosion technique ever could.