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Il segreto delle tre pallottole
È quasi inevitabile che ogni affermazione circa la fusione fredda crei intorno a sé un'atmosfera da "teoria del complotto". E, altrettanto fatalmente, ci si trova a compiere d'un tratto un balzo all'indietro nel pieno della Guerra Fredda, con il consueto corredo di spie, verità negate, spiegazioni taciute. Di certo rimane soltanto un palese e totalmente anacronistico tentativo di occultare una nuova generazione di armi che utilizza l'uranio in varie forme. L'uranio del primo tipo serve a nascondere l'uranio del secondo tipo, pretendendo che le tracce lasciate da questi due tipi di uranio siano in realtà tracce di uranio di un terzo tipo: quello più innocuo. Di tangibile rimangono le tante vittime lasciate sui campi degli ultimi scenari di guerra, abbandonate al loro destino senza fonti ufficiali in grado di spiegare la ragione della loro morte o le motivazioni delle loro malattie. "Il segreto delle tre pallottole" ha l'ambizione di raccogliere le fila di un argomento scomodo, riportando le voci di chi ha dedicato e continua a dedicare la propria vita allo studio di sofisticati processi nucleari che potrebbero avere straordinarie-applicazioni civili.
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First published July 14, 2010
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January 8, 2026
Very interesting book about the nature of some of the highly destructive weapons used in wars in the last few decades.
Written in form of novel, this book is based on the investigation done by Italian group of journalists in the early 2000's. It is written in the form of novel because at the end while the group ended up with lots of information and indications of nuclear level weapons being used, it all remained very foggy and without hard proof. Instead of just burying this one down, they decided to write it in form of novel to at least put the information "out there", and to make sure people are at least aware of the developments.
Therefore book walks that very thin line of fiction and non-fiction (all names are changed, characters are added or conflated into single character etc). But what book provides is very interesting discussion on the actual nature of some of the very powerful weapons used in 21st century, or to be more precise since 1990's.
What I found interesting is that nuclear weapon effects do not always include high yield kT or MT warheads. Some of the work done very very early in the development of nuclear energy applications showed that even simple pressure (very high pressure, though but again just a good old fashion pressure application) when applied to specific materiel can produce very volatile explosive reaction with the nuclear effect when it comes to devastation. When this is applied to modern alloys and compositions (like Israeli shrapnel air bombs that are for some reason called low lethality weapons (?!)) modern explosive pressures and chemical traits can create extremely devastating effects when coupled with certain metallic alloys released during the explosion, be it beads, rods or anything in between.
Famous depleted Uranium bullets (so called tanker busters, made famous by A-10 strikes during the first Gulf War) are anything but regular ammunition. Their effect on the vehicle armor, high level of energy released during the friction (while penetrating the armor) and residual radiation post destruction, indicate these are rounds with some very unpleasant features, not least of which is ability to poison the area and make it uninhabitable for years or decades to come.
And then there are reports of use of some highly powerful weapons in the first Gulf War that were characterized by witnesses as nuclear weapons and that got recorded by seismological monitors all over the world as nuclear discharge.
In the background we also follow the story of cold fusion, for all means and purposes poison for any academic career. But what made this very worrisome (nuclear energy at room temperature) is comment on how different effects could be achieved with use of different metals in the process.
Now, let me be clear - I dont have any information that could help me with the figuring out what is possible or not. Science community is like every other community, can be made to cower and they will do if price is too high to pay and their livelihood comes into question (just look at the "consensus" in 2020). So they are not the authority people might consider them to be (at least for me).
What I do assume is that military applications are usually way, way ahead of anything made for civilian use. And when it comes to mini/micro nuclear weapons (or maybe better said weapons with nuclear effect that do not fall into what everyone considers nuclear weapon) you can bet nobody will talk about this, and any official publications wont mention anything that would indicate such weapons exist.
Very interesting book, lots of information I did not know before - including fear of US Army in WW2 that Germans would use radioactive materiel to contaminate front-line - and I especially liked the comment that whenever government says this weapon is for limited-casualties, safe-for-environment (most weird comment for any weapon if you ask me), always assume the opposite.
Highly recommended to anyone interested in modern weapons and danger coming with their use.
Written in form of novel, this book is based on the investigation done by Italian group of journalists in the early 2000's. It is written in the form of novel because at the end while the group ended up with lots of information and indications of nuclear level weapons being used, it all remained very foggy and without hard proof. Instead of just burying this one down, they decided to write it in form of novel to at least put the information "out there", and to make sure people are at least aware of the developments.
Therefore book walks that very thin line of fiction and non-fiction (all names are changed, characters are added or conflated into single character etc). But what book provides is very interesting discussion on the actual nature of some of the very powerful weapons used in 21st century, or to be more precise since 1990's.
What I found interesting is that nuclear weapon effects do not always include high yield kT or MT warheads. Some of the work done very very early in the development of nuclear energy applications showed that even simple pressure (very high pressure, though but again just a good old fashion pressure application) when applied to specific materiel can produce very volatile explosive reaction with the nuclear effect when it comes to devastation. When this is applied to modern alloys and compositions (like Israeli shrapnel air bombs that are for some reason called low lethality weapons (?!)) modern explosive pressures and chemical traits can create extremely devastating effects when coupled with certain metallic alloys released during the explosion, be it beads, rods or anything in between.
Famous depleted Uranium bullets (so called tanker busters, made famous by A-10 strikes during the first Gulf War) are anything but regular ammunition. Their effect on the vehicle armor, high level of energy released during the friction (while penetrating the armor) and residual radiation post destruction, indicate these are rounds with some very unpleasant features, not least of which is ability to poison the area and make it uninhabitable for years or decades to come.
And then there are reports of use of some highly powerful weapons in the first Gulf War that were characterized by witnesses as nuclear weapons and that got recorded by seismological monitors all over the world as nuclear discharge.
In the background we also follow the story of cold fusion, for all means and purposes poison for any academic career. But what made this very worrisome (nuclear energy at room temperature) is comment on how different effects could be achieved with use of different metals in the process.
Now, let me be clear - I dont have any information that could help me with the figuring out what is possible or not. Science community is like every other community, can be made to cower and they will do if price is too high to pay and their livelihood comes into question (just look at the "consensus" in 2020). So they are not the authority people might consider them to be (at least for me).
What I do assume is that military applications are usually way, way ahead of anything made for civilian use. And when it comes to mini/micro nuclear weapons (or maybe better said weapons with nuclear effect that do not fall into what everyone considers nuclear weapon) you can bet nobody will talk about this, and any official publications wont mention anything that would indicate such weapons exist.
Very interesting book, lots of information I did not know before - including fear of US Army in WW2 that Germans would use radioactive materiel to contaminate front-line - and I especially liked the comment that whenever government says this weapon is for limited-casualties, safe-for-environment (most weird comment for any weapon if you ask me), always assume the opposite.
Highly recommended to anyone interested in modern weapons and danger coming with their use.
January 11, 2011
Si tratta del seguito dell'inchiesta condotta da RaiNews24 sullo stato attuale della "fusione fredda". Il reportage "Rapporto 41", dal nome del documento dell'ENEA di Frascati in cui si dimostrava indiscutibilmente la natura atomica dei processi coinvolti nel caricamento a deuterio del palladio, metteva in luce le tante ombre ed omissioni in una faccenda che, dai suoi lontani esordi del 1989, è stata volontariamente sommersa di fango.
Torrealta, con la collaborazione di Emilio del Giudice, svela molti altri retroscena, con attenzione principale sul tristemente reale e tangibile utilizzo militare della tecnologia, che al contrario dovrebbe costituire la porta maestra di un futuro pulito di indipendenza energetica e di rinnovamento ambientale.
Dal pedinamento di Fleischmann da parte di Edward "Stranamore" Teller alla morte per microcancri di Preparata all'insabbiamento e diversione di fondi dalle avanzatissime ricerche dell'equipe dell'ENEA all'uso, confermato da due fonti indipendenti (un testimoe oculare e 9 rilevamenti sismici incrociati), di una mini-bomba atomica a Bassora - è più che legittimo pensare che le LENR siano state messe a tacere e discreditate da fonti militari per tenere il silenzio sulle recenti tecnologie militari che, attraverso l'ignizione per via chimica, hanno prodotto bombe nucleari che non richiedono massa critica. E si spiega allora che l'uranio impoverito usato nelle munizioni in Iraq, Kosovo ed altri posti, serve a produrre per effetto Bridgman (pubblicato nel '37 e sottaciuto da allora) nubi di nanopolveri altamente tossiche e radiazioni, le quali coprono l'utilizzo di uranio arricchito, il quale copre l'utilizzo di mini-nukes attivati con caricamento di uranio con deuterio.
La materia bollente è presentata in forma di ipotesi alla maniera di un romanzo. Torrealta e la sua equipe usano un linguaggio asciutto e molto chiaro, dove i riscontri registrati delle interviste a personaggi reali sono evidenziati in corsivo. Gli inserti di Del Giudice sono come sempre preziosi e assai godibili, oltre che ovviamente scientificamente esatti.
Imprescindibile per chi ha interesse in questa faccenda.
Torrealta, con la collaborazione di Emilio del Giudice, svela molti altri retroscena, con attenzione principale sul tristemente reale e tangibile utilizzo militare della tecnologia, che al contrario dovrebbe costituire la porta maestra di un futuro pulito di indipendenza energetica e di rinnovamento ambientale.
Dal pedinamento di Fleischmann da parte di Edward "Stranamore" Teller alla morte per microcancri di Preparata all'insabbiamento e diversione di fondi dalle avanzatissime ricerche dell'equipe dell'ENEA all'uso, confermato da due fonti indipendenti (un testimoe oculare e 9 rilevamenti sismici incrociati), di una mini-bomba atomica a Bassora - è più che legittimo pensare che le LENR siano state messe a tacere e discreditate da fonti militari per tenere il silenzio sulle recenti tecnologie militari che, attraverso l'ignizione per via chimica, hanno prodotto bombe nucleari che non richiedono massa critica. E si spiega allora che l'uranio impoverito usato nelle munizioni in Iraq, Kosovo ed altri posti, serve a produrre per effetto Bridgman (pubblicato nel '37 e sottaciuto da allora) nubi di nanopolveri altamente tossiche e radiazioni, le quali coprono l'utilizzo di uranio arricchito, il quale copre l'utilizzo di mini-nukes attivati con caricamento di uranio con deuterio.
La materia bollente è presentata in forma di ipotesi alla maniera di un romanzo. Torrealta e la sua equipe usano un linguaggio asciutto e molto chiaro, dove i riscontri registrati delle interviste a personaggi reali sono evidenziati in corsivo. Gli inserti di Del Giudice sono come sempre preziosi e assai godibili, oltre che ovviamente scientificamente esatti.
Imprescindibile per chi ha interesse in questa faccenda.
August 26, 2012
Libro interessante che fornisce una prima idea sui forti poteri militari e finanziari che manipolano ormai tutto o quasi: dall'informazione, alla ricerca alla politica.
Peccato solo che questo tipo di giornalismo ormai sia relegato in spazi strettissimi e con pochissimi canali di divulgazione.
Peccato solo che questo tipo di giornalismo ormai sia relegato in spazi strettissimi e con pochissimi canali di divulgazione.
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