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Nanotechnology opens up the possibility to manufacture mini-nuke components so small that they are difficult to screen and detect. Furthermore, the weapon (capable of an explosion equivalent to about 100 tons of TNT) could be compact enough to fit into a pocket or purse and weigh about 5 pounds and destroy large buildings or be combined to do greater damage to an area. "When we talk about making conventional nuclear weapons, they are difficult to make," he said. "Making a mini-nuke would be difficult but in some respects not as difficult as a full-blown nuclear weapon." Del Monte explained that...

U.S. Losing Nanoweapons Race to China Lev Navrozov Friday, July 16, 2004 On the last page of her four-page testimony of April 9, 2003, to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, allocating funds for nanotechnology, Christine Peterson, president of Drexler’s Foresight Institute, wrote two lines that are so paradoxical, horrible – nay, obscene – that I am not sure it is proper to quote them publicly. She wrote at the very end of her statement that "there is no guarantee that the U.S., an ally, or other democracy will be the first to reach molecular manufacturing, and failure...

From Lev Navrozov.Before launching the Web site www.worldthreats.com, Ryan Mauro was a geopolitical analyst for a maritime security company called Tactical Defense Concepts. I like our interview and have decided to publish it in my column because it "starts from scratch,” a useful approach, since in the last eight years or so the media have created an honest-to-goodness vacuum on the subject.********** A Glimpse Into China’s Post-Nuclear Super-Weapons: Lev Navrozov Interviewed by Ryan Mauro for www.worldthreats.com I am thankful to Lev Navrozov, an expert in post-nuclear superweapons, as he calls them, for granting this interview. Ryan Mauro: Mr. Navrozov, your...

Before launching the Web site www.worldthreats.com, Ryan Mauro was a geopolitical analyst for a maritime security company called Tactical Defense Concepts. I like our interview and have decided to publish it in my column because it "starts from scratch,? a useful approach, since in the last eight years or so the media have created an honest-to-goodness vacuum on the subject. A Glimpse Into China?s Post-Nuclear Super-Weapons: Lev Navrozov Interviewed by Ryan Mauro for www.worldthreats.com (PhilNDeBlank9@aol.com) I am thankful to Lev Navrozov, an expert in post-nuclear superweapons, as he calls them, for granting this interview. Ryan Mauro: Mr. Navrozov, your "nano...