The Physics of Nuclear Weapon Design

First posted
Thursday April 23, 2009 17:55
Updated
Saturday October 24, 2009 11:40

Late last year, that mystery man paid the scientist, P. Leonardo Mascheroni, $20,000 in cash left in a drop box at the Albuquerque airport, according to Mascheroni, who says he kept it in a closed envelope that was opened by FBI agents who searched his Los Alamos home Monday.

What the government has now done with Mascheroni is to focus on how much money it has spent on fusion generation of electricity.

Nearly 70% of that funding went into just two areas of research-- nuclear energy ($66 billion) and renewable sources ($12 billion). Those technologies account for about 16% of U.S. energy production and about 22% of its electrical generation, according to the federal Energy Information Administration.

Los Alamos, Sandia Labs, and Livermore fusion research has not resulted in generation of electricity.

After reading MSM BS, we think we have the Mascheroni matter figured out.

1 Mascheroni does not possess any classified information.
2 If the government claims the information is classified, then it may not be properly classified or unclassifiable.
3 Hugo Chávez and company aren't stupid enough to pay $800,000 for information that is already public knowledge.
4 Would Mascheroni try to con Venezuela out of $800,000? IMO, yes.

Rosendorf said she could not provide further details about the lab's investigation of his wife. She said Marjorie Mascheroni - who has "Q" clearance, the highest clearance level that gives her access to classified information - has had her badge pulled and does not have access to the lab.

FBI raids nuclear scientist's home on claims of being a Venezuelan spy

Wire Services: Federal agents seized computers, papers, books and electronic equipment from the home of a former Los Alamos National Laboratory nuclear scientist, who believes the government is wrongly targeting him as a spy.

P. Leonardo Mascheroni told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Wednesday from his home that four FBI agents searched his home for 13 hours on Monday. The agents, he said, led him to believe they were investigating him for espionage.

Google.

Cell phone message arrived from Miami Herald reporter complained that no email had arrived.

Reporter wanted both Mascheroni's and Spohn's phone numbers asap.

Mascheroni made 18:00 TV Wednesday October 21, 2009.

Listen to Miami Herald reporter phone conversation.

Marjorie Mascheroni.

Miami Herald reporter.

Wednesday April 29, 2009 11:52 Fusion appears violate the laws of thermodynamics. Opinions on this. E=mc2 instead? http://home.comcast.net/~bpayne37/pnmelectric/donbrown/algodones.htm#solararray A megaton of TNT or megatonne of TNT is a unit of energy equal to 10^15 calories, also known (infrequently) as a petacalorie, equal to about 4.184 petajoules. http://www.prosefights.org/nmlegal/theinvestigation/physics/physics.htm

Reed and Stillman THE NUCLEAR EXPRESS. Ulam 'demonstrating' MANIAC in 1955 Algebra knowledge acquired from professor Aboulghassem [sp?] Zirakzadeh at the University of Colorado in the summer of 1958 was used for Sandia labs job assignment tutorial. This guy drove to me Boulder, CO to attend prof Zirakazeh's course in 1958. Tutorial was labelled SENSITIVE by Sandia labs. But I [#01981] didn't send a copy to Japan. valued Sandia customer = National Security Agency Foreign national. Dr Fushimi implemented his extension of the GFSR at IMSL in Houston. IMSL was bought by Visual Numerics. The Fushimi extension of GFSR is included in the Visual Numerics library. Rogue Wave Software Acquires Visual Numerics Creates a leading commercial vendor of cross-platform, embeddable software libraries BOULDER, Colo., May 5, 2009 — Rogue Wave Software, Inc., a Battery Ventures portfolio company, today announced that it has acquired Visual Numerics, Inc., a privately held advanced analytics software company based in Houston, Texas. For more than three decades, Visual Numerics has provided numerical analysis and visualization software solutions that help users understand complex data from a variety of sources and build business-critical applications. The company offers two product lines: the IMSL® Numerical Libraries for powerful mathematical and statistical analysis and the PV-WAVE® visual data analysis development environment. This acquisition complements the Rogue Wave product families of software development tools, components and frameworks by adding industry-leading advanced data analysis and visualization tools. According to IDC the market for advanced analytics tools grew 13% in 2007 and usage is expected to become much more pervasive. The GFSR package was programmed and tested by Dr Richard Hanson. The GFSR, unlike other pseudorandom number generators, generates true zeros. Monte Carlo simulations which divide by a pseudorandom number can crash on division by zero. Simulation in Germany apparently ran for many hours, then crashed as a result of division by zero. Therefore, Dr Hanson masks in a low order 1 bit in the VNI implementation. Dr Ted Lewis told me that Los Alamos uses the GFSR in its nuclear weapons computer simulations. I discovered the GFSR algorithm and assigned its development, implementation and testing to Lewis for his Ph.D. thesis. NSA placed requirements [all hardware implementation of crypto algorithms] designed to try to make Sandia's projects fail, IMO. Sandia Labs approved book on software technology used in above authenticator. NSA wanted the crypto implementation business back from Sandia labs, IMO. And in other Sandians' opinions too.

Wednesday April 29, 2009 07:51 Mexico's Woes: Quakes, Flu and Oil Production Collapse Los Alamos fusion comment. We found Leo. Los Alamos Nuclear physicist Dr Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni May 6, 2009 phone conversation. First part not recoreded. P L Mascheroni 1900 Camino Mora Los Alamos, NM 87544 (505) 662-3785 Working. Message left. Lawrence K Spohn 775 Cascade Ct SE Rio Rancho, NM 87124 (505) 891-2789 May be working. Newspaper reporter Larry Spohn phone conversation May 6, 2009. Without Internet our legal project would be impossible. Only in Albuqueruque, NM too. Nuclear Fusion, laws of thermodynamics and Los Alamos retiree Danny Stillman. Variable yield, or dial-a-yield, an option available on most modern nuclear weapons, allows the operator to specify a weapon's yield, or explosive power, allowing a single design to be used in different situations. Mod-10 B61 bomb had selectable explosive yields of 0.3, 5, 10 or 80 Kt ... The W-88 with fresh tritium inside its pit may explode with a yield of 475 kilotons, but with no tritium inside the core it might explode with the force of just 20 kilotons. Tritium is a radioactive isotope of hydrogen that typically is produced in nuclear reactors or high-energy accelerators. It decays at a rate of about five percent per year (half of it decays in about 12 years). Tritium’s decay makes it necessary for routine replenishing in U.S. nuclear weapons. The United States has not produced tritium since 1988, when the Department of Energy's (DOE's) production facility site in South Carolina closed. Immediate tritium needs are being met by recycling tritium from dismantled U.S. nuclear weapons. According to DOE, resumption of tritium production is essential for maintaining the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile. http://www.prosefights.org/nmlegal/theinvestigation/physics/physics.htm#mascheroni

The Albuquerque Tribune, March 27, 1996. DOE boss accelerates whistle-blower protection By Lawrence Spohn [T]he news was greeted with joy by Leo Mascheroni, a maverick fusion physicist who was fired nine years ago by Los Alamos National Laboratory in a head-on collision of scientific ideas. "I love it," said Mascheroni, who lost his job after he proposed an alternative fusion energy laser that threatened the status-quo research of the secret military fusion program. He says he was wrongly fired on trumped-up security violations, a contention that later was confirmed by Los Alamos-based DOE security officer Bill Risley, who independently investigated the case for headquarters. "They punish me, my ideas and my family for 10 years," said Mascheroni, an Argentine immigrant who says he still has a lot of hope for the American system." Accused at one point of being a spy and hounded by DOE security agents, Mascheroni said, "My case is the opposite, really, of democracy. When they did what they did to me, I couldn't fight back. "I chose to live in hell for my ideas and I won't let them go now," he said "They still must resolve the scientific issues." He continues to demand that DOE conduct an independent scientific review of the costly military fusion research program. ...