Peaceful USA

I know the that there are al sorts of bad nations out there building atom bombs and chemical weapons, and such like. But leave it to the peaceful USA to lead the way toward the brave new world of weaponry. The US Air Force has been spending hundreds of millions researching positron weapons. If the US is successful in developing such a device it will be the equivalent of creating the atom bomb back in 1945. It will totally change the potential for global destruction.

A positron is an anti-electron. Antimatter! A softball sized lump of anti-electrons could destroy most of the earth as they annihilate with their material cousins. It also does not contaminate the countryside with radioactive fallout. So it is seen, by the military, as a “clean” weapon. Something they have sought for a long time.

Here is a quote from a 2004 San Francisco Chronicle story:

“More cataclysmic possible uses include a new generation of super weapons -- either pure antimatter bombs or antimatter-triggered nuclear weapons; the former wouldn't emit radioactive fallout. Another possibility is antimatter- powered "electromagnetic pulse" weapons that could fry an enemy's electric power grid and communications networks, leaving him literally in the dark and unable to operate his society and armed forces.

Following an initial inquiry from The Chronicle this summer, the Air Force forbade its employees from publicly discussing the antimatter research program. Still, details on the program appear in numerous Air Force documents distributed over the Internet prior to the ban.”

The guy who spilled the anti-matter beans was munitions Directorate official Kenneth Edwards, of Eglin Air Force Base. FYI: Eglin is the largest air force base in the world encompassing 724 squire miles of land and another 97,000 square miles of ocean. The state of Oregon is only 96,000 square miles