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Originally posted by beav
don't they already have those neutron bombs which give off similar ammounts of EMP that a nuke does...without the massive destructioN? although i think it still emmits deadly radiation.
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I don't think they ever actually made the neutron bomb - I think it was just an idea or plan on someone's drawing board, and as soon as the public caught onto it (back in the Cold War), they protested en mass and forced the govt. not to develop it. I may be wrong - maybe someone did make one - but that's what I remember from my history lessons (it's weird to think that events of just 10 or so years ago gets taught in 'history' lessons).
I think the scary thing about neutron bombs was that they emitted lots of high-energy neutrons which would pass through material like armour on tanks etc, but get absorbed by the human body causing fatal damage or something. Basically you could detonate one above an enemy army, kill all the troops, and because there was no radiation afterwards (unlike nukes), you could just move in and take all the tanks and stuff that were now just sitting there with dead people in them. Nasty. I hope no-one ever does make one of those
