DOVE/Red Mercury dooms U.S Super State? The first part of this post deals with Red Mercury. The remainder deals generally with cheap weapons of mass destruction and their proliferation amoung small groups. Red Mercury means Antimony Mercury Oxide. This compound looks rather harmless but it is not. This compound is very technically difficult to synthesize in its dangerous state. I suspect that the compound is more complex than its formula suggests. According to Spin magazine, it is not exactly an explosive but goes through a chemical transformation that releases MUCH more power (energy/time) than high explosives. It was discovered in Russia and is currently being produced there. DOVE is a code name for an American device that would have used Red Mercury. The unique property of Red Mercury is that it releases so much power that it can be used as a trigger for miniature fusion bombs! And appar- ently has been. Most of this material is from a booklet by Dr. Gary North, called BILLS FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE - chapter 7 - Khomeini's Bill. This booklet is a recent promotional for North's REMNANT REVIEW. Remnant Review 824 East Baltimore Street Baltimore, MD 21202 The following text is mostly information quoted from North's booklet in which he gets his info from Sam Cohen - The man who came up with the idea of the neutron bomb in the late 1950's. --------------------start North---------------------------- -------- The DOVE project was active at least since 1958 at the Livermore nuclear weapon laboratory. "The proposed device was part of the lab's peaceful explosive program, e.g., underground drilling & exploration. It contained no fissionable material. That is, it was not detonated by an atomic bomb. It was to be composed of deuterium & tritium: heavy hydrogen which is used in the hydrogen bomb. It would have the effect of 10 tons of TNT. It would have been an extremely low-yield weapon." Cohen concluded that it would also serve as a weapon. It would kill enemy troops with radiation out to several hundred yards, but without the destruction of buildings and without serious radioactive contamina- tion. These devices, if practical, could be turned out by the hundreds at very low nuclear cost, since they contained no fissionable material. Here was a completely different approach to neutron bombs. Not long after, he told a key Presidential advisor about it. This man has been a high-level advisor in the field of nuclear disarmament for half a century. The man understood the problem: if such a weapon could be built, any nuclear-proliferation treaty would become unenforceable- a nightmare in his view. As Cohen told me, shortly thereafter he was forbidden access to this project, which the government killed by 1960. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union's research program continued. Even before Liverpool began its research, the USSR had been involved in a similar project. A 1957 paper by a Soviet weapon designer described experiments done in 1952. In 1961, a Soviet colonel described in Red Star the mili- tary effects of such devices. Cohen realized that the Soviets were not talking about DOVE; they were developing it. Now jump ahead about three decades. In 1992, Russian General Ye Negin stated that Russia had begun producing low-yield nuclear devices, but double what previous tactical nuclear weapons have been. He stated that this had been accomplished with a hundredfold reduction in weight. Cohen cites a 1990 statement by Viktor Mikhailov, who is now the Russian Minister of Atomic Energy: "You can drop a couple of hund- red little bombs on foreign territory, the enemy is devastated, but for the aggressor there are no consequences." This means the Soviets - now called Russians - developed the long- missing trigger: the detonation technology. Cohen calls this new material Red Mercury: an antimony, mercury oxide. But U.S. intelligence services have officially denied that any relevant evidence for such a device exists. Remember this rule: "No rumor should be considered true till its denied." A NEUTRON BOMB IN A LUNCH SACK In my interview with Cohen, he described eating his lunch in the park across the street from the White House, just a few hundred yards away. If a tritium-based, red-mercury detonated device exists, he speculated, it would weigh perhaps five pounds. A person could sit down on a park bench, casually eat his lunch (or pretend to), deposit the lunch sack in a trash can, and walk away. At some predetermined moment, the bomb would explode. Everyone above ground in the White House would be killed. So would most people within several hundred yards of the explosion in every direction. His other scenario is similar: a brown paper bag deposited between the two World Trade buildings in New York City. Tens of thousands of people could die. The issue here is terrorism. These devices could be tested in under- ground ficilities. They would give off no detectable radiation above ground when exploded. Their low-level explosive force could not be moni- tured. The killing power of these devices is not in the force of the explosion. It is the neutrons that do the damage. They also blow out computers: electromagnetic pulsation (EMP). Because they are very light and undetectable, these devices could be smuggled easily across a border. Hide one in a coffee can. How cheaply could they be produced? Cohen cannot be sure since he does not know the precise nature of the detonating mechanism. But even at the cost of $1 million or more, this would be irrelevant compared with the consequences. A DOVE is a cheap weapon. THE GOVERNMENT HAS TO DENY THIS STORY The government faces two problems. (1) The 1968 Non- Proliferation Treaty does not deal with tritium. It deals only with fissionable materials, e.g. plutonium. (2) The Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) defense treaty is now threatened. By exploding a DOVE-type weapon in the atmo- sphere, a defensive-minded nation could disrupt incoming nuclear missiles. When detonated, these DOVE devices give off virtually no detectable radiation: no fissionable material. Any terrorist nation could test such a device, and the West would not know about it. This means that the two key nuclear war-related treaties of the U.S. are tech- nologically dead. They can be violated at will. The State Department dares not admit this. ---------------------------end North------------------------ -------- North thinks that Iran will be the country that attacks the U.S. with these bombs. SOME MORE REFERENCES TO RED MERCURY ---------------------start---------------------------------- -------- Fool's mercury. (synthesized red mercury created by Promecologia) The Economist, May 22, 1993 v327 n7812 p76(1). Abstract: Promecologia claims to be able to synthesize red mercury, and it has a $24.2 billion deal to sell the mercury to API International. But this deal has gone awry, because of accusations that the sale is only an attempt to launder money. Companies: Promecologia - Contracts API International - Contracts AN: 13768250 -------------------------end-------------------------------- ------ ----------------------------start--------------------------- -------- ... But only fools still hunt for elusive red mercury. New Scientist, June 06, 1992 v134 n1824 p10(1). Author: William Brown Subjects: Mercury compounds - Reports Fraud in science - Reports Gov't Agencies: United States. Department of Energy - Reports AN: 12747905 (This may be a disinformation article. Gary Jeffers) --------------------------end------------------------------- ----- --------------------------start----------------------------- ---- Black holes of red mercury. (views of Gennady Brubulis, retired State Secretary) Moscow News, August 13, 1993 n33 p11(1). Author: Vladimir Orlov Abstract: The existence of "red mercury," a mercury antimonite that is produced and exported by the USSR to countries such as the US, France, and Iraq for use in the manufacturing of nuclear weapons, is investi- gated and analyzed. The substance is a brownish-steel power or a red liquid, and costs between 320 and 380 dollars per gram. Russian chemists and other specialists in the US Department of Energy have denied the existence of this substance. Subjects: Mercury - Research AN: 14519163 (Its probable that this article is in English. Gary Jeffers) ------------------------------end--------------------------- --------- An article titled Red Mercury was printed in (I'm pretty sure) Spin magazine some time ago.

From WAR AND ANTI-WAR by Alvin and Heidi Toffler - Warner Books

----------------------Start--------------------------------- --------- WALL STREET AND WARLORDS All this leads some pessimists to doubt that nuclear arms can be controlled at all. Few match the gloom of Carl Builder, a statigic analyst at the RAND Corporation. Builder's pessimism is regarded as extreme by many of his colleagues, but as the first director of nuclear safeguards for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, he can hardly be dismissed. At one time Builder was totally responsible for the security of all nuclear materials in civilian hands in the United States, some of it bomb-grade stuff. The main problems of the future, he believes, will not arise from nation-states at all, but from those we called "global gladiators" in our book POWER SHIFT. These are terror organizations, religious move- ments, corporations, and other nonnational forces - many of whom, he says could gain access to nuclear weaponery. Listening to him one imagines the Irish Republican Army announcing that it has accquired its own nuclear bomb. A call to the BBC warns that "if British troops do not evacuate Northern Ireland withing seventy- two hours, a nuclear device will..." The bumblers who devastated parts of New York's World Trade Center might have oblierated Wall Street had someone cleverer supplied them with a tactical nuke. Someday, Builder believes, even outfits like the Medellin cocaine cartel may be able to build their own nuclear weapons. According to a report in The Economist, "There have already been more than 50 attemps to extort money from America with nuclear threats, some frighteningly credible." Worse yet, to the current list of possible threats an additional one, largely overlooked, now has to be added. Not only governments, terrorists, and drug barrons, but warlords may now be searching for nuclear weapons. There are, often ignored by the arms-control community, private armies in many parts of the world under the control of local business-cum- political thugs. The equivalent of warlords can be found from the Philippines to Somalia and the Caucasus, wherever central government control is weak. More and more of these private armies are spinging up as the national forces of the old Soviet Union disintegrate. Moreover, there are reasons to believe that mafia-like business groups in Russia today, feed, house, cloth, and control whole units of the former Red Army. In short, private armies, mercenaries, and First Wave warlordism are all making a comeback. The idea of nuclear weapons under the control of these local generalissimos should send a sudder down our collective spine. Builder's proliferation scenario, however, forces us to confront the extreme. Like gunpowder, he says, "Nuclear weapons are going to diffuse.. I'm going to go even further and say, even if not in my lifetime, per- haps, but in the forseeable future, [that they] are going to proliferate down to individuals. It will be possible for an individual to make a nuclear device from materials which are in commerce." Mafia families, Branch Davidian cultists, archaeo- Trotskyite group- uscules, Sendero Luminoso Maoists, Somalian or Southeast Asian warlords, Serbian Nazis, and even, perhaps, individual loonies could hold whole nations at ransom. Worse yet, Builder believes, "An opponent cannot be deterred by the threat of nuclear weapons if that opponent has no defin- able society to threaten." Thus, he says, a "terrifing asymmetry" looms ahead. --------------end of WAR AND ANTIWAR------------------------ ----------- Another threat is cheap biological warfare. A few years ago in a popular science magazine, a scientist was describing the near future threat of biological weapons. Amoung the things he stated was 1. while only two sites in the world house smallpox samples, its genome is known and it can be made in a gene sequencer. 2. As bio science advances, plagues can be manufactured by smaller groups of people. 3. A plague could be tailored to strike only a certain racial group in only a particular part of the world. The part of the world described by humi- dity, temp., climate, etc.. CONCLUSION The world is not going to be dominated by a one world state. Tech- nology dictates that weapons of mass destruction are going to find their way into the hands of smaller and smaller groups. No longer will giant states be able to say "you do what I say." Sort of a "Don't tread on me" world. "God created man. Samuel Colt made men equal." - AND cheap weapons of mass destruction will make political entities equal regardless of size. Other books that pretty much reach these conclusions are: The GREAT RECKONING by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees- Mogg Simon & Schuster; BLOOD IN THE STREETS by same writters; and BASEMENT NUKES by Erwin S. Strauss - Loompanics Unlimited. Relevance to CYPHERPUNKS: Weaponery decides size of viable independent political groups & their degree of independence. This will decide much of the nature of private communications. Also, Cypherpunks was sort of down about the increasing control of the U.S. superstate. I think this will cheer them up. & Finally: In the old Feudal days, wars weren't so bad. The nobility would fight while the peasants watched nearby & cheered the sport. Won't it be just grand when we sit in front of our tv's with cherry cokes & popcorn & watch the "horrible" news reports of the destruction in Washington D.C. in which the dreaded two-headed Clinton monster was killed and various paramilitary headquarters, the IRS, Congress, lobbyists, lawyers, the Federal Reserve and a violent welfare population were destroyed. Set VCRs on record! PUSH EM BACK! PUSH EM BACK! WWWAAAYYY BBBAAACCCK! BBBEEEAAATTTT STATE! Gary Jeffers