Almost all Soviet people remember how the government in the 1980s, frightened citizens terrible new weapon invented "decaying capitalism."Political information in institutions and teachers at a school in the most horrible colors describe the danger to all life carries a neutron bomb, put into service in the United States.From her not to hide in underground bunkers or concrete shelters.From it will not save flak jackets and durable protection.All organisms, in the case of a strike, will perish, while building bridges and mechanisms, with the exception that the epicenter of the explosion, will remain intact.Thus, the powerful economy of the developed socialism will fall into the hands of the US military.
Insidious neutron bomb acted entirely on a different principle than the atomic hydrogen or "king-bomb", which is so proud of the USSR.When thermonuclear explosion occurs powerful emission of heat radiation and shock waves.The atoms that carry a charge, bumping into things, especially metals, are included in the interaction with them, held them, but because the enemy hiding behind metal screener are safe.
note that none of the peaceful population of the Soviet nor the US military once thought, all thoughts of developers of new weapons were aimed at the destruction of the military power of the enemy.
But the neutron bomb, a project which has developed by Samuel Cohen, by the way, in 1958, represented a charge of a mixture of radioactive isotopes of hydrogen: deuterium and tritium in particular.The explosion released a huge number of neutrons - particles with no charge.As a neutral, unlike atoms, they quickly penetrate through the solid and liquid physical barriers, bringing death only organics.Therefore, such weapons have been called the Pentagon "humane."
As mentioned above, the neutron bomb was invented in the late fifties.In April 1963, it was carried out its first successful test at the site.Since the mid-70s with neutron warheads charges have been installed on the American system of defense against Soviet missiles based in Grand Forks, North Dakota.What is so shocked the Soviet government, when in August 1981 the Security Council the United States announced the serial production of the neutron bomb?After all, it has already been used by the US Army for nearly twenty years!For
Kremlin rhetoric about "peace in the world" concealed anxiety that the private economy is no longer able to "pull" the costs of the military-industrial complex.After all, since the end of World War II, the USSR and the US are constantly competing to create a new weapon capable of destroying a potential enemy.Thus, the creation of the atomic bomb by the Americans led to the production of the same charge and the carrier TR-4 in the USSR.On the Russian attack - intercontinental nuclear missile "R-7A" - Americans responded rocket "Titan-2".
as "our answer to Chamberlain" in 1978, the Kremlin ordered the Atomic Scientists at a secret facility "Arzamas-16" to develop and introduce domestic neutron weapons.However, it was not under force to overtake and surpass the United States.So far only conducted laboratory development, President Ronald Reagan announced in 1983 the establishment of the "Star Wars."Compared with this ambitious program, the explosion of the bomb, even with a neutron charge seemed a shot children's firecrackers.As Americans disposed of obsolete weapons, and Russian scientists have forgotten about it.
