(06-26-2025, 03:47 PM)Oldcarpy2 Wrote: Do you have a source?
Today initially An audio interview with a 'hack from South Dakota'
Let me check his blog. . .
Aha
Most of the "bad stuff" is coming from the fission reaction, including those fast neutrons. So the quest of thermonuclear engineering has always been for a means of initiating a fusion reaction (the really big explosion) without an a-bomb to set it off (a really big explosion without the nasty by-products). The latter quest as birthed all sorts of stories about substances or methods able to
accomplish this, from the Red Mercury legends (which I've talked about in my books), to the tests of the so-called "Ripple" technology during the last atmospheric test shot of the American Operation Dominic, a test which I have talked about with our friend and colleague Daniel Liszt (Dark Journalist) on his show. This last test, according to publicly available information, was the last atmospheric test of a hydrogen bomb done by the United States in 1963, and was personally authorized by then-president Kennedy. The test allegedly achieved a fusion reaction that was "99.99 percent clean", i.e., with very little residual radioactive fallout. Shortly after this test, the Soviet Union signed the nuclear test ban treaty, and my suspicion is that the USA, under Kennedy's prompting, shared the results of the test with the Soviets. The reason for the sudden Soviet acquiescence is simple: if the USA
did manage to explode a "clean" hydrogen bomb, then the unthinkable just became thinkable: one could achieve strategic destruction on a potential enemy without the radioactive fallout blowback on oneself.
Here is wikipedia for you
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Dominic
Housatonic test
October 30, 1962 16:02:??jamt (−11 hrs)
Believed in use during
Dominic, Fishbowl, HT I.[sup]
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Johnston Island, Johnston Atoll
13.7°N 172.2°W0 + 3,700 m (12,100 ft) air drop,
weapons development
Kinglet primary with Ripple II secondary[sup]
[21][/sup]9.96 Mt[sup]
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Repeat of
Androscoggin, successful, target accuracy within 100 ft (30 m); last U.S. nuclear weapon airdrop. Reportedly 99.9% clean.[sup]
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19. Grams, Jon (28 May 2021). "Ripple: An Investigation of the World's Most Advanced High-Yield Thermonuclear Weapon Design".
Journal of Cold War Studies.
23 (2): 133–161.