Talk:Pure fusion weapon

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Some researchers have examined the use of antimatter as an alternative fusion trigger, mainly in the context of antimatter catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion. Such a system, in a weapons context, would have many of the desired properties of a pure fusion weapon. The technical barriers to producing and containing the required quantities of antimatter appear formidible, well beyond present capabilities.

Do you have a reference for this? If not it will have to go --DV8 2XL 01:05, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Did you bother reading the linked articles; see also antimatter weapon. --Robert Merkel 12:54, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Or this link. --Robert Merkel 12:57, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Then those external links should go in the main article. The ones that are there are silent on anti-mater weapons, and by policy you shouldn't use wikipedia articles as primary references. -DV8 2XL 13:09, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pure Fusion weapons and Terrorism

I deleted all the material about Pure fusion weapons and terrorism. There is no evidence that technologically advanced countries have ever been able to produce one, despite spending huge amounts of cash, so how are terrorist organisations meant to produce a pure fusion weapon? Enriching uranium is a trivial task compared to producing a pure fusion weapon. Wikipedia is not the place to try to make the case that pure fusion weapons might increase the terrorist threat: there needs to be a reference. I also reduced the section on "red mercury" to a link, because this is already discussed there, and doesn't seem to merit extensive discussion. --Dashpool 15:29, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Removed uninformative statement

I removed the phase "The successful creation of a pure fusion weapon would be a worrying development.". Wether development of such devices would be a good or a bad thing is a matter of pow, and as such something that articles should be neutral about. --UltimateDestroyerOfWorlds (talk) 15:38, 17 January 2008 (UTC)