One gram of fully charged hafnium isomer could store more energy than 50 kilograms of TNT. Miniature missiles could be made with warheads that are far more powerful than existing conventional weapons, giving massively enhanced firepower to the armed forces using them.

The effect of a nuclear-isomer explosion would be to release high-energy gamma rays capable of killing any living thing in the immediate area. It would cause little fallout compared to a fission explosion, but any undetonated isomer would be dispersed as small radioactive particles, making it a somewhat “dirty” bomb. This material could cause long-term health problems for anybody who breathed it in.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn4049-gamma-ray-weapons-could-trigger-next-arms-race/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafnium

and

178m2Hf is a particularly attractive candidate for induced gamma emission (IGE) experiments, because of its high density of stored energy, 2.5 MeV per nucleus, and long 31-year half life for storing that energy. If radiation from some agent could "trigger" a release of that stored energy, the resulting cascade of gamma photons would have the best chance of finding a pair of excited states with the inverted lifetimes needed for stimulated emission. While induced emission adds only power to a radiation field, stimulated emission adds coherence. The possibility to manipulate gamma ray coherence, even to a small degree, would be interesting.[4] The lifetime of the hafnium isomer is long enough for tractable amounts of material to be collected into experimental targets. Such samples would hold no hazards for personnel working with the material; 1 microgram of 178m2Hf has an activity of 1.5 megabecquerels (41 microcuries).

A proposal to test the efficacy for "triggering" 178m2Hf was approved by a NATO-Advanced Research Workshop (NATO-ARW) held in Predeal in 1995.[5] Although the proposal was to use incident protons to bombard the target, α-particles were available when the first experiment was scheduled. It was done by a French, Russian, Romanian and American team. Results were said [6] to be extraordinary, but the results were not published. Nevertheless, 178m2Hf was implied to be of special importance to potential applications of IGE. A controversy quickly erupted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafnium_controversy

i'm sure they have better stuff now... some of their missiles can blow through 20 feet of hardened reinforced concrete, with small nukes as the payload... they tested a lot of these in Iraq, during the war...

Yet, far from banning DU, America and Britain stepped up their denials of the harm from this radioactive dust as more and more troops from the first Gulf war and from action and peacekeeping in the Balkans and Afghanistan have become seriously ill. This is no coincidence. In 1997, while citing experiments, by others, in which 84 percent of dogs exposed to inhaled uranium died of cancer of the lungs, Dr. Asaf Durakovic, then Professor of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine at Georgetown University in Washington was quoted as saying, 'The [US government's] Veterans Administration asked me to lie about the risks of incorporating depleted uranium in the human body.' He concluded, 'uranium does cause cancer, uranium does cause mutation, and uranium does kill. If we continue with the irresponsible contamination of the biosphere, and denial of the fact that human life is endangered by the deadly isotope uranium, then we are doing disservice to ourselves, disservice to the truth, disservice to God and to all generations who follow.' Not what the authorities wanted to hear and his research was suddenly blocked.
http://www.rense.com/general64/du.htm

Well they are all worried that someone might get even with us by setting off a dirty bomb.





Here is the skinny and why the US and UK is considered by everyone except of course the US and UK to be guilty of war crimes (among other reasons).

Its on par with the same inhuman despicable **** they pulled at Dresden, the 'real' holocaust.

http://www.bandepleteduranium.org/en/docs/163.pdf

They spread this crap all over the region, there was no reason on this planet why they should inflict on any population long if not permanent health problems that are likely to continue for generations if not eternity.

Orwell 1984 was supposed to be a novel, not a manual for gvmnt SOP.

Cool video Moe...makes you wonder how small and what kind(neutron, hydrogen)of bombs we have now after 50 years of more research and development.