i was reading this article Science: The Controversy of a Potential Hafnium Bomb Posted by Hemos on Saturday May 08, @10:34AM from the what-a-glowing-debate dept. deglr6328 writes "Physics Today has a report detailing the surprisingly heated controversy surrounding the usually sober science of nuclear isomers (the Washington Post has run a less scientifically rigorous version). Since the 70's it has been known that the specific "m2" isomer of Hafnium-178 has an extraordinarily long half life of