fallujah

Nicola | 20.12.2005 16:47

Could other forbidden weaponry have been used at Fallujah?

Such as a mini-nuetron bomb?

Theres a film showing at Rampart on Thursday about Fallujah. Which I havn't yet seen, but it doesn't sound like Napalm or phosporous.

Fallujah - The Hidden Massacre (2005)
Veteran admits: "Bodies melted away before us".

download from here-

http://www.rainews24.rai.it/ran24/inchiesta/video/fallujah_ING.wmv

"a small neutron bomb used in Faluja"

http://www.iraq-war.ru/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=35514

"the clothes which were eerily intact- like each corpse had been burnt to the bone, and then dressed up lovingly in their everyday attire"

http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/2005_11_01_riverbendblog_archive.html#113218124805731713

Nicola

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Neutron bomb

20.12.2005 18:07

A so-called 'neutron bomb' is an atomic weapon designed to produce an excess of neutrons for the purpose of killing troops who are inside tanks etc. It would have a yield of some kilotons and leave highly radioactive debris around. Whoever wrote this doesn't know what he's talking about.

sceptic

What weaponry do the US Marines have?

20.12.2005 19:15

The mini-nuetron bomb is designed for killing rather than destruction.

and just how small can mini-nukes be made?

http://3ad.com/history/cold.war/nuclear.pages/weapons.pages/adm.3.htm

Huh?

How could burning phosphorous kill but not damage clothes?

20.12.2005 19:41

I agree with the article, phosphorous burns at such a high temperature it would certainly burn the clothes, their must of been other weapons as well.

Someone with an A-level in Chemistry

An A-level in Chemistry?

20.12.2005 20:21

"their (sic) must of (sic) been other weapons as well. "
Well you certainly don't have an A-level in English.

Dumbing down

pyrophosphoric acid gas

20.12.2005 21:40

When phosphorus burns in air, it first forms phosphorus pentoxide (which exists as tetraphosphorus decoxide except at very high temperatures):

P4 + 5 O2 → P4O10

However phosphorus pentoxide is extremely hygroscopic (deliquescent) and quickly absorbs even minute traces of moisture to form liquid droplets of phosphoric acid:

P4O10 + 6 H2O → 4 H3PO4 (also forms polyphosphoric acids such as pyrophosphoric acid, H4P2O7)

"burns may be limited to areas of exposed skin because the smaller white phosphorus particles do not burn completely through personal clothing"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_phosphorus_incendiary

US used chemical weapons in Iraq

http://www.albasrah.net/maqalat/english/0305/us_used_chemical_weapons_in_iraq.pdf#search='IRaq%20white%20phosphorus'

'Its harmless smoke'

http://armchairgeneralist.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/11/its_not_chemica.html

Wikipedia reader
Homepage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_phosphorus_incendiary

"Mini nukes"

20.12.2005 22:41

You can indeed make very low yield devices - usually uranium gun designs. These would not be suitable for 'neutron bombs'. The American Mark 79 neutron bomb had a yield of 1 kiloton. In any event, whichever path you go down, you are still going to be left with a good deal of radioactive fission products. In addition, irradiating material with neutrons also tends to make them radioactive as a result.

sceptic

Should be easy enough to check then

21.12.2005 00:15

"burns may be limited to areas of exposed skin because the smaller white phosphorus particles do not burn completely through personal clothing"

Was the skin under the clothing affected?

sceptic