Comment Wrong on the Neutron Bomb (Score 1) 820
You write a great number of errors about neutron bomb.
First of all, neutron bomb wasn't designed as an anti-balistic weapon.
This is interdit by internatinal treaty like ABM traty or Non nuclearisation of space traty.
Clearly it was make as an anti-tank weapon. Because of big concentration of tanks in western europe during the Cold War, it was interesting for Us army to have a theater weapon with low fallout. Neutron bomb is a three-stage device : it used neutron made by a thermonuclear explosion to active creation of fusion's neutron in a third stage . In general, it use plastic whose hydrogene's atoms are changed by isotopes like tritium or deterium. Fusion neutron from thermonuclear explosion can create fusion reaction with that isotopes.
This is not the only kind of three-stage weapon: Andrei Sakharov show (and permit the experimentation...) the design of a mega nuke with use fusion neutron to active fission reaction in a uranium 235 coverture: this kind of nuke experimented by sovietic has a puissance of 70 Megatons... by from Sakharov that 's not an upper limit...
Second, you write:"Since the neutron blast falls off rapidly with distance (the old inverse square law in action)". There is no rapport from inverse square law and the fall off of neutrons. Neutrons are neutre...
Third as an theater weapon, neutron bomb was an very perturbative weapon during the Cold War.
It was an element of instability because this doctrine of usage was very differents of that of Sovietic or French. For them nukes was doomsday machine, not super bombes!! Nukes have only utilities as life-assurance to empeach direct invasion of national territories. But Neutron bomb is thinking as a super bomb to destroy tildes of soviet tanks...