It's not a nuke. It's a nuclear device. It would likely only be the size of a soda can. The installation would also include magnetic lensing, which would be much more complex (and take up the entire room). I was serious about saying to look up the "BB18 WTC" image. Note the installer wearing a static wrist strap. The BB18 is a capacitor/switch/relay kinda thing, from what I read. It's part of the electronic setup that surrounds the device.
Weapons tech is several generations ahead of this. The Israeli nukes are rumoured to have been manufactured in extremely advanced and precise processes utilizing atomic deposition, yielding perfectly spherical combustion of the nuclear fuel. The efficiency of the reaction is related to 1) the purity of the sample (atomic deposition allows for insane purity levels) and 2) how perfectly spherical the detonation is. This required perfectly spherical fuel and perfectly timed shaped charges around the fuel. The Israelis can 3D print the explosives shapes needed from 3D printers (allowing them to control the purity there, as well). (Source: Am nuclear weapons nerd)
Measuring the yields in tonnes is counter productive/intuitive to the explanation since the nuclear cutter charges are optimized to produce X-rays, not explosive power, and so are therefore not analogous to chemical reactions. The goal is to produce high energy that can be then magnetically lensed (redirected) towards a target structure (in this case, the WTC's core). So, this device isn't measured by yield but by radiation output. Please see:
The devices are designed from the ground up to direct its radiation in a specific direction:
Tthere is a potentially large “lumpiness” or spatial variability in the
prompt radiation output at any given point, particularly for high-altitude detonations,
that results from mass absorption shadowing. The flux or fluence of prompt gammas,
neutrons and X-rays is by no means isotropic about the burst point of a high-altitude
detonation. Clumps of materials (thrusters, gas bottles, propellant tanks, firing units,
etc., for example) surround a warhead in a non- symmetric fashion and make radiation
output estimation inherently three-dimensional. In realistic situations, some warhead
components will shield the prompt radiations from other components, creating a large
shadow cone in a preferential direction.
There is also something called "cold" X-rays, which of course they don't want. Low energy. They want the highest energy X-rays.
On p39 you can see them targeting structures themselves:
Radiation can cause damage in many
different ways. Energy deposition from neutrons or X-rays will rapidly heat materials,
causing deformation, decomposition, spallation, delamination, degradation of material
properties, and the generation of intense shocks. Neutrons will cause displacement
damage, activation, heating, and charged particle production in materials. X-rays and
γ-rays will generate charge deposition and photocurrents that can upset or burn out
electrical systems and cause dielectric breakdown in insulators.
On p43 you can see them talking about ways to engineer the weapons to create tightly focused beams, but these systems become very large. The background here is mostly Star Wars type systems where nuclear explosions are themselves used to create very temporary but powerful lasers that can take down nuclear warheads in space. The sat would literally explode, almost like the way anti-tank armour works.
The charges are referred to as "nuclear demolition charges" but that is an old Soviet term/distinction. In this case the purity of the yield was the key. It's exponential so the last four decimals and last few nanoseconds are what hype up the yield to insane levels for such a small device. Then the magnetic lensing reflects the X-rays produced towards the core's steel super structure, flash-melting a good portion of it all at once. It's literally as if someone at the press of a button could turn large sections of the core to the consistency of oatmeal. Hence, the free-fall speeds. And all the molten steel is camouflaged in the dust. Many of the conventional charges were only there to create the dust to hide the real reactions going on at the core.
It's not a nuke. It's a nuclear device. It would likely only be the size of a soda can. The installation would also include magnetic lensing, which would be much more complex (and take up the entire room). I was serious about saying to look up the "BB18 WTC" image. Note the installer wearing a static wrist strap. The BB18 is a capacitor/switch/relay kinda thing, from what I read. It's part of the electronic setup that surrounds the device.
Weapons tech is several generations ahead of this. The Israeli nukes are rumoured to have been manufactured in extremely advanced and precise processes utilizing atomic deposition, yielding perfectly spherical combustion of the nuclear fuel. The efficiency of the reaction is related to 1) the purity of the sample (atomic deposition allows for insane purity levels) and 2) how perfectly spherical the detonation is. This required perfectly spherical fuel and perfectly timed shaped charges around the fuel. The Israelis can 3D print the explosives shapes needed from 3D printers (allowing them to control the purity there, as well). (Source: Am nuclear weapons nerd)
Measuring the yields in tonnes is counter productive/intuitive to the explanation since the nuclear cutter charges are optimized to produce X-rays, not explosive power, and so are therefore not analogous to chemical reactions. The goal is to produce high energy that can be then magnetically lensed (redirected) towards a target structure (in this case, the WTC's core). So, this device isn't measured by yield but by radiation output. Please see:
https://irp.fas.org/agency/dod/dsb/nweffects.pdf p27
The devices are designed from the ground up to direct its radiation in a specific direction:
There is also something called "cold" X-rays, which of course they don't want. Low energy. They want the highest energy X-rays.
On p39 you can see them targeting structures themselves:
On p43 you can see them talking about ways to engineer the weapons to create tightly focused beams, but these systems become very large. The background here is mostly Star Wars type systems where nuclear explosions are themselves used to create very temporary but powerful lasers that can take down nuclear warheads in space. The sat would literally explode, almost like the way anti-tank armour works.
Interesting theory and actually makes sense. Thermite is slow but a small detonation at the steel structure would quickly bring the buildings down.
The charges are referred to as "nuclear demolition charges" but that is an old Soviet term/distinction. In this case the purity of the yield was the key. It's exponential so the last four decimals and last few nanoseconds are what hype up the yield to insane levels for such a small device. Then the magnetic lensing reflects the X-rays produced towards the core's steel super structure, flash-melting a good portion of it all at once. It's literally as if someone at the press of a button could turn large sections of the core to the consistency of oatmeal. Hence, the free-fall speeds. And all the molten steel is camouflaged in the dust. Many of the conventional charges were only there to create the dust to hide the real reactions going on at the core.
Makes sense if indeed these things exist.