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President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing announced last month that France had tested its own Enhanced Radiation Weapon (ERW), commonly known as the neutron bomb. Military experts point out that the neutron bomb is not a bomb at all, since it is not designed to be dropped from a plane. It is actually a "clean" nuclear warhead, small enough to fit onto a missile or even into a 155-mm howitzer. A modified hydrogen bomb, the ERW produces minimal heat and blast and virtually no residual radiation and fallout (see chart...
...ERW was first envisioned in the 1950s by a group of Rand Corp. scientists. They were seeking ways of modifying the hydrogen bomb to enhance and focus its radiation effects while reducing its devastating explosive blast...
...ERW is basically a fusion weapon. About 80% of its energy is released in the form of a flow of high-speed neutrons, and only 20% in the form of heat and blast. The high-speed neutrons readily penetrate iron or steel, so armored tanks are no protection to the crews inside them...
...change in attitude is perhaps best seen in The Netherlands. When the first groups of German tourists arrived in 1952, old resistance men painted walls and fron tierbarriers with the slogan: Deutsche nicht Erwünscht! (Germans not wanted), a variation of the Jews-not-wanted signs in Nazi days. This week the Dutch Tourist Bureau was complaining that it needs more money to make more propaganda to attract more Germans...
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