A salted bomb is a nuclear weapon designed to function as a radiological weapon by producing larger quantities of radioactive fallout than unsalted nuclear arms. This fallout can render a …

A cobalt bomb is a type of "salted bomb": a nuclear weapon designed to produce enhanced amounts of radioactive fallout, intended to contaminate a large area with radioactive material, …

Jan 27, 2015 · It’s the classic piece of chemical tomfoolery: take a lump of sodium or potassium metal, toss it into water and watch the explosion. Although this piece of pyrotechnics has …

May 23, 2013 · Federal Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus and the Australian Federal Police today launched the Chemicals of Security Concern campaign. In a bid to curb terrorism, the …

Jan 26, 2015 · With snapshots from a high-speed camera, chemists can finally explain why sodium and other alkali metals blow up in water. Just before the explosion, spikes burst from …

Jan 28, 2015 · Chemists have scrutinized a classic piece of bench chemistry — the explosion that happens when sodium metal hits water — and revised the thinking of how it works.

The first chemical PIRA used to produce HME mixtures and replace dynamite was sodium chlorate, a strong oxidizer used as a weed killer. Sodium chlorate was mixed with the …

Homemade chemical bombs (HCBs), also known as acid bombs, bottle bombs, and MacGyver bombs, are explosive devices that can be made easily from volatile household chemicals (e.g., …

A salted bomb is a Radiological weapon designed to produce enhanced quantities of radioactive fallout, rendering a large area uninhabitable.[1] The term is derived both from the means of …

In an effort to demonstrate the danger to humanity which nuclear weapons constituted, Szilard theorized the "Salted" nuclear bomb. The meaning of the quoted in this was two-fold: a nuclear …