CHINA & IRAN: NUCLEAR WEAPONS ARE A THING OF THE PAST

Written by Michael Thervil

The last time nuclear weapons were unleashed on the world were by the hands of the Americans and the Japanese. Ever since then, most every country on earth has been either seeking to get their hands on them or construct their version of what is considered to be the most bower weapon system in the world. If fact nuclear weapons are so powerful that they now serve as a deterrent and if one country deploys nuclear weapons on another country that has them, then what is known as M.A.D. (Mutually Assured Destruction) is likely to occur putting the global health of the world at risk. People around the world fear the use of nuclear weapons so much that they have lobbied against countries such as Iran to never be able to build their own version of a nuclear bomb. But thanks to China, that could change in the future if it hasn't already.

Although it has a “No First Use” policy in place, meaning that they will not use nuclear weapons first until fired upon with a nuclear weapon. This weapon system could allow them to bypass this no first use policy since this weapon can’t be classified as a nuclear weapon. China has claimed to have the ability to build a bomb that delivers the same destruction and devastation without the use of nuclear material. If this is true, which it probably is, could be a game changer for countries like Iran who in the eyes of the Collective West should never have the capabilities to construct a nuclear weapon.

Remember, the Collective West doesn’t know exactly what's in Iran's weapons arsenal, but if Iran has this Chinese made Hydrogen weapon in their possession it's safe to say that they are in no danger of violating any nuclear talks or agreements that aim to prevent them from having a nuclear weapon. Maybe this is why they are so confident in saying that they have no ambitions in seeking to build a nuclear weapon. In fact, the claim could be made that since it’s possible that Iran already has this non-nuclear weapon in its arsenal, the current non-nuclear talks with America serve as nothing but cheap entertainment to gauge the seriousness of America on the matter at hand.

So how does China's newest weapon of mass destruction work? It starts off with a refined Silver like powder called Magnesium Hydride which acts like a sponge in terms of socking up Hydrogen Gas and storing it in physical form. Magnesium Hydride was originally created as an alternative sustainable fuel source for Green Technology. Magnesium Hydride in its weaponized form only works If it absorbs the shock from an initiator which generates both intense heat and a shockwave; which could be made out of an explosive, pyrotechnic, or propellant. From that point a chain reaction occurs.

Once exposed to the initial intensive heat by the initiator, the heat combined with the shockwave triggers an accelerated decomposition of the magnesium hydrate which instantaneously releases the stored Hydrogen Gas. It’s that Hydrogen Gas in combination with oxygen that ignites and burns exponentially fast and wide creating a “sustained inferno”. What makes this weapon so destructive is that once the combination of Hydrogen Gas and oxygen ignites and burns, it repeats and burns the remaining Magnesium Hydride.

It’s that heat which is produced from the explosion that facilitates more decomposition of Magnesium Hydride and releases even more Hydrogen that burns and produces more destruction until all the Magnesium Hydride has been utilized. The heat created from the detonation of this weapon of mass destruction is 1,800 Fahrenheit. While a nuclear bomb burns hotter at 200 million degrees Fahrenheit, the devastation of China's newest non-nuclear weapon is strikingly similar in terms of thermal damage.

It is this “synergistic cascading of mechanical fracturing Hydrogen release and thermal feedback” which makes this type of weapon system so dangerous. China has built a factory that will be able to manufacture roughly 150 tons of Magnesium Hydride a year.