Neutrons bombs don't contaminate an area for generations, or for centuries. That's the whole point. Drop the neutron bomb. Kill the people. But leave the buildings intact so people can move in and repopulate the place.
No, It would be a very unpleasent place to be (for about a second), then not so much.
The whole idea is the Enhanced Radiation Warhead is a prompt radiation wave of fast neutrons which sweeps through everything, armour, concrete, rocks, wood, flesh and delivers a lethal rad dose to anything living, leaving the area unradded and accessible to your followup troops to seize control.
It is totally not suitable for quarantining a region.
You need big fusion devices for this, not n-bombs.
An idiotic idea for several reasons, not the least of which is the technical ineptitude of the subject. No one has adequately explained (to me anyway) why we are even there. Oil pipeline, control and profit from narcotics? Bin Laden is supposedly dead and you’re never going to “win the hearts and minds” over there. And googling a photo of the moron that said this shows a bloated old limey probably with colored servants that serve him tea at three that would probably order troops to open up with enfield .303’s on a crowd of unarmed women and children in another era. I say leave them to their goats and poppies, but otherwise quarantine them from the west through adequate immigration enforcement, and security intelligence. Neutron bomb, gimme a break.
Some ERRB (Enhanced Radiation/Reduced Blast) warheads would be the perfect solution to the Palestinian problem in Gaza and the West Bank.
McArthur suggested creating a radioactive cordon across Korea to contain the norks. Of course, it was vetoed.
The easy solution would be to poison the poppy fields. They, and US drug interests, are driving the idiocy as much as islam. Oh, and erase the whole Bush family, as well as the Sauds. This is tailor-made for genetic plague, which can also be used to get rid of the poppies.
How about we just irradiate Saudi Arabia and get this fake war on terror over?
Gen. Mc Arthur made a similar suggestion during the Korean war proposing seeding the Chinese border with North Korea with radioactive materials to make it impassable for Chinese troops.
LOL. HOw about spraying pig blood everywhere?
I you want to deny access to an area a neutron bomb is not the way to go; you want something "dirty".
The old boys gone gaga.
I am just reading a book by a young officer dealing with the wars there on that frontier. I take the liberty of a quote about the tribal factions killing each other. Only united in killing the stranger:
Nor are these struggles conducted with the weapons which usually belong to the races of such development. To the ferocity of the Zulu are added the craft of the Redskin and the marksmanship of the Boer..... At a thousand yards the traveler falls wounded by a well aimed bullet of a breech loading rifle. His assailant, approaching, hacks him to death with a ferocity of a South Sea Islander. The weapons of the nineteenth century are in the hands of the savages of a Stone Age.
The Malakand Field Force.
Winston S. Churchill.
First published 1898.
Now published by Dover Publications.
Mineola, New York.
Nobody has a solution, more is the pity.
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How about instead, a good old-fashioned thermonuclear device? On both sides of the border!