Periodically, new public information comes along which hints at the possibility that LENR/cold fusion has military application. This could be of interest to a few countries which do not yet have facilities for the enrichment of U. Keeping LENR in the category of pathological science also explains the motivation of “official neglect” of the field by DoE and DoD.
Most LENR researchers doubt this weaponization possibility on its technical merits, and try to stay clear of any discussion related to the subject. Yet the ultimate threat - the worst possible “killer app”… so to speak… would be the CF- bomb – an explosive device which does not depend on enriched uranium or plutonium. Such a weapon could be the size of an ink pen. Even if the yield is much weaker than a typical fission weapon (a few tons) – as it is fueled by only a few grams of titanium deuteride, it would nevertheless be formidable and more powerful, pound for pound than any alternative (and can be drone-mounted). Here is an older report containing a detail overlooked in previous efforts ( to find information pointing to such weapons). There is provocative information in official documents about densification, some of which has inadvertent mention of LENR materials but not by name. http://isis-online.org/isis-reports/detail/questions-and-answers-regarding-iranian-document/ If you scan down the document - there appears to be a mystery wrt the appearance of titanium deuteride in the Iranian effort – which derives from the earlier Pakistan effort. For some years there had been rumor that either a trigger or a complete device had been developed in that part of the world which amounted to a new kind of explosive. This goes along with the similar but different “red mercury” which may have had some validity despite official denials. It would be highly beneficial to the Iranians, for instance, to have weapons which avoided detection under the treaties which are in place. LENR would be perfect for their needs since it could be completely NON-radioactive. Red mercury is supposedly radioactive and easily detected. Why titanium? …one might ask, since it has not received that much attention in LENR studies compared to other host metals and does not appear to be especially energetic. Well, as it turns out in retrospect, one reason (not mentioned before) is the phenomenon of titanium hydride “densification.” There are a few papers which are unrelated to LENR or to military devices which indicate that titanium-deuteride, either as TiD2 or TiD3 can be mechanically pressed into a dense molecular form which is higher density than the metal itself. Imagine that. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10426914.2016.1244833?journalCode=lmmp20 IOW the end result is that deuterium has completely lodged within the electron orbital of the titanium atom - which is most astounding given that Ti is the strongest metal to begin with - and has very low thermal expansion, in addition… both of which properties argue against such complete absorption. It is unprecedented. But apparently this extreme densification does happen and yet the application and end use for this is not obvious. Except to the Pentagon. In the end, this anomaly means that deuterium is absorbed under intense pseudo-pressure, creating maximum internal stress … which then in another step can be further multiplied via laser irradiation and compression via Coulomb explosion. Let’s hope this rambling is nothing more than SciFi fantasy or a far-out plot for the next Bond thriller.
