Antimatter bomb

Scientists believe that antimatter not only can solve the energy problem and achieve the energy revolution, but also has significant military applications. Antimatter is believed by military experts to have the following four military applications: first, it is used as propellant for ultra-fast rockets, such as sublight rockets; Second, it can be used as a super small and super light energy generator for military stations in space orbit and other fields. Third, it is used as the "nuclear trigger" to start the fusion bomb. Fourth, it can be used as a concentrated energy beam weapon, such as an anti-matter bomb that can be adjusted at will. It can be said that Western nuclear powers, led by the United States, are interested in antimatter weapons with antimatter as ammunition. As early as 1983, the US RAND Corporation spent US $2 million to conduct a feasibility study for the US Air Force to produce and use 10 trillion antiprotons per second and to make a "proton bomb" using this technology. In 2000, the US Air Force set up the "Revolutionary Ammunition" team headed by Edwards, who is known as "the father of anti-matter weapons in the US", to focus on anti-matter weapons research. According to the Western classification of nuclear weapons, antimatter weapons belong to the fourth generation of nuclear weapons, which are considered "conventional weapons" and can be used in conventional or local wars. The main feature of antimatter weapons is that they are extremely energy-dense and easy to ignite, unlike the fission reaction of an atomic bomb, which requires a critical mass and cannot be reduced in size, or the fusion reaction of a hydrogen bomb, which requires a very high ignition temperature and must be detonated by an atomic bomb (but now it seems possible to do so without an atomic bomb). Second, unlike nuclear bombs, antimatter bombs have the explosive power of hydrogen bombs, but when they explode, they only generate electromagnetic waves and do not produce nuclear radiation. They will not cause huge radiation damage to living things and plants and cause humanitarian disasters. Therefore, antimatter bombs are "clean hydrogen bombs". The scientists estimate that each millionth of a gram of antiprotons annihilating with protons releases the same energy as 37.8 kilograms of TNT. One gram of antimatter is equivalent to about 40 kilotons of TNT -- about the energy of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The energy of a few micrograms of antimatter can be used as a trigger for thermonuclear reactions, or can ignite powerful X-ray bursts or gamma ray lasers. If an antiproton and a proton annihilate each other, the energy released is about 10 times that of a uranium nucleus fission. If you take into account the secondary effects of the annihilation reaction in the material, then the reaction will release more energy. It is reported that in September 2008, the Pentagon held a computer simulation exercise named "Antimatter Attack 2008". The actual situation of the exercise is as follows: In 201X, a US soldier stole an antimatter time bomb into the capital of C, installed it in a public toilet near the building of the General Staff of C in the city center, and then calmly withdrew. After the military operation began, an antimatter time bomb exploded, incinerating the general staff building and auxiliary facilities of C, and the soldier was carrying only 50 millionths of a gram of the antimatter bomb! Then, an antimatter pulse bomb detonated over the power and communications networks of country C, and in an instant, the country's military and social activities were completely paralyzed... After the exercise, the Pentagon generals exclaim, "A few grams of antimatter bomb could destroy the earth!" However, George Dyson, a historian and scientist at Princeton University's Institute for Advanced Study, points out that a "clean" antimatter weapon is far more frightening than a "dirty" nuclear weapon because it is more likely to be put into action. If the United States develops an antimatter weapon, it will be more reckless on the battlefield -- it may be classified as a conventional weapon because it has no nuclear residue."

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