MINIATURIZED FUSION

"The Dove of War'' written by Sam T. Cohen (inventor of the neutron bomb) in National Review, December 27, 1993, pp 56-76 discusses the advent of miniature neutron bombs as a result of bal lotechnic detonators. This is the same technology that Sam Cohen discussed as a power generating method in his article in Access to En ergy, December 1993. He suggests that it is now possible to build tritium fusion explosive device small enough to be concealed in lunch sack and with a yield of about 1 ton of TNT explosive equiva lent and 9 ton equivalents of radiation. This could be fatal to people out to several hundred yards.

The small size and low cost (almost no nuclear industry is re quired) of these devices would allow virtually any country to develop them without detection. Once again the secrecy that Edward Teller has warned against for decades prevents most American scientists from knowing whether or not this danger actually exists - and pre vents the truth about this from affecting realistic public policy.