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The origin of Iraq's nuclear weapons program: Technical reality and Western hypocrisy
Suren Erkman, Andre Gsponer, Jean-Pierre Hurni +1
This report is based on a series of papers written between 1980 and 2005 on the origin of Iraq's nuclear weapons program, which was known to one of the authors in the late 1970s al…
The B61-based "Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator:" Clever retrofit or headway towards fourth-generation nuclear weapons?
Andre Gsponer
It is scientifically and technically possible to build an earth penetrating device that could bury a B61-7 warhead 30 meters into concrete, or 150 meters into earth, before detonat…
Fourth Generation Nuclear Weapons: Military effectiveness and collateral effects
Andre Gsponer
The paper begins with a general introduction and update to Fourth Generation Nuclear Weapons (FGNW), and then addresses some particularly important military aspects on which there…
From the lab to the battlefield? Nanotechnology and fourth generation nuclear weapons
Andre Gsponer
The paper addresses some major implications of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) engineering and nanotechnology for the improvement of existing types of nuclear weapons, and th…
Antimatter underestimated
Andre Gsponer, Jean-Pierre Hurni
We warn of the potential nuclear proliferation's consequences of military applications of nano- or microgram amounts of antimatter, such as triggering of high-yield thermonuclear e…
ITER: The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor and the nuclear weapons proliferation implications of thermonuclear-fusion energy systems
Andre Gsponer, Jean-Pierre Hurni
This report contains two parts: (1) A list of "points" highlighting the strategic-political and military-technical reasons and implications of the very probable siting of ITER (the…
Depleted-Uranium Weapons: the Whys and Wherefores
Andre Gsponer
The only military application in which depleted-uranium (DU) alloys out-perform present-day tungsten alloys is long-rod penetration into a main battle-tank's armor. However, this a…