"Israel" has, since its attacks on Lebanon in 2006 and those on Gaza in 2008 and 2014, used a new nuclear weapon, one which kills with a high temperature radiation flash and with neutrons. ...

"Israel" and the USA (at least) have developed what is almost certainly a mini-neutron bomb. "Israel" is using it in Gaza. And may be using it in Lebanon (again).

EDIT: some important criticisms of the author have been raised in the comments. It's quite possible he's speculating too much from insufficient evidence. However, he does offer the following, which we shouldn't dismiss either:

  1. Enriched Uranium was found in Gaza according to this Nature article.
  2. A crater from an "israeli" bomb in Lebanon was found to be radioactive (original source was an unnamed Lebanese newspaper in 2006, but it was also discussed in this article in The Independent).
  3. Samples from the crater were found to contain enriched uranium (independently verified by the Harwell laboratory, as mentioned by The Independent article in 2).
  • Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 months ago

    Deuterium dissolved in Uranium and when this warhead, as small as a baseball, was fired at a solid object, the hydrogen suffered Cold Fusion to form Helium with the emission of a powerful gamma ray which cause the U238 to convert to an unstable U-239 which decayed to U-235 and a neutron.

    Uh, what the fuck? Neutron bombs are a thing as far as I am aware, but why is this article all of a sudden talking about cold fusion? Definitely makes it so I can't share the article with anyone.

    • Che's Motorcycle@lemmygrad.ml
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      3 months ago

      Yeah, this is just odd speculation on the author's part. There's really no need to guess how the neutron bombing has been done, or worse invoke discredited mechanisms for how the reaction took place. The discovery of enriched uranium is more than enough.

        • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]
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          3 months ago

          No clue, I'm not a physicist

          I do think the guy might be a bit over his skis in trying to figure out why the enriched uranium is there as opposed to just reporting that it's there in the first place.

          What is more likely, Israel and the us have developed some sort of compact neutron bomb mini weapon that they are deploying in secret, or, "depleted" uranium shells actually aren't depleted (would explain Fallujah as well)

          • CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml
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            3 months ago

            DU shells by definition would lower the concentration of U-235, wouldn't they? In Gaza concentrations as high as 1.2% EU (U-235) versus the natural 0.7% were found in 2021.

            • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]
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              3 months ago

              If the uranium was actually depleted... Why it wouldn't be, either intentionally or accidentally I have no idea, I literally can't opine