Re: Orbital Lasers
I agree. The neutrons produced by neutron bombs tend to be in the keV range, so a meter of liquid hydrogen will absorb them quite nicely. Also, any carbon-based armor would be quite fine, as it would also absorb the neutrons without issue.
Anyway, why would anyone want a neutron bomb? They are quite literally the most useless nuclear weapon. Their only utility in warfare was a marginal increase in the radioactivity of the detonation site, as the metals in the area become somewhat radioactive, but it greatly reduced the destruction power of a nuclear weapon to do so. It was why the US shelved the neutron bomb program after billions of dollars of development, because it was a less than useful weapon.
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