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	TITLE: High Energy Weapons
	AUTHOR: Gary K. Au, Ph.D
	PROJECTED RELEASE DATE: Late 1995
	PAGES: approx 460, in 10 pt. V.I.P. Baskerville font
	SIZE: paperback novel size, with 4 colour plates, and black and white
		illustrations throughout

Table of Contents
	
	PREFACE (a short discussion on conflict, and its causes)

	FOREWORD (by Chuck Hansen)

	ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

	INTRODUCTION (the history of the Bomb)

	CHAPTERS

	1.) The Physics of Nuclear Weapons (60 pages in total)
		Ą Nuclear Fission Weapons (approx 30 pages + diagrams)
			Ą energy released in nuclear fission
			Ą binding energies of various elements 
			Ą Pu-239, U-235, and other fissionable elements
			Ą the role of U-238
			Ą fission triggers, and the fast neutron chain reaction
			Ą fission products
			Ą fission cross sections (CS) , neutron capture CS
			Ą fission neutron energy spectrum and number
			Ą explosives and detonators
			Ą Polonium-Beryllium cores, neutron sources
			Ą critical masses
			Ą neutron diffusion theory
			Ą gun, implosion, auto catalytic methods for assembly
			Ą tampers and reaction efficiency
			Ą predetonation problems and fizzles
			Ą neutron backgrounds
		Ą Thermonuclear Weapons (approx 30 pages + diagrams)
			Ą the failed classical Super calculations
			Ą the Teller-Ulam construction
			Ą the separation of stages breakthrough
			Ą indirect drive inertial confinement fusion (ICF) 	
		(summary of open literature on the subject, and its
				 possible relation to the secondary)
			Ą hohlraums
			Ą radiation pressure
			Ą the problem of compression
			Ą the role of the bomb casing and X-ray fluorescence
			Ą hydrodynamics of radiation flow
			Ą hydrodynamical instabilities and even compression
			Ą possible design configurations
				Ą cylindrical fusion pellets and casing
				Ą ellipsoidal casing, spherical fusion fuel
			Ą neutron bombs and enhanced radiation weapons
			Ą cobalt bombs

	2.) The Effects of Nuclear Weapons (100 pages)
			Ą the initial light flash
			Ą blast effects, pressure wave formation, overpressure
			Ą reflection/refraction of blast by atmosphere
			Ą damage radii tables
			Ą mushroom cloud formation
			Ą electromagnetic pulse (EMP)
			Ą radioactive fallout
			Ą radiation effects
				Ą alpha, beta, gamma particles and neutrons
				Ą short term effects of radiation
				Ą long term effects
			Ą Hiroshima/Nagasaki data and eyewitness accounts
			Ą how ionising radiation does damage
				Ą cell and DNA structure
				Ą background radiation levels
				Ą genetic/somatic changes
			Ą accumulated low level radiation
			Ą evidence and experiences from Chernobyl in 1986

	COLOUR PLATE SECTION (4 plates with 2 photos on each)

		Ą Ivy Mike, Teapot Met and other early atmospheric tests
		Ą Baneberry underground test venting
		Ą U.K. testing in Australia
		Ą French, Chinese, Russian tests, India's test
		Ą pictures of bomb casings, Fat Man, Little Boy
		Ą Hiroshima/Nagasaki photos

	3.) The Nuclear Fuel Cycle (100 pages)
		Ą uranium mining and ore detection
		Ą plutonium
		Ą thorium (India's thorium reserves)
		Ą isotope enrichment schemes
			Ą magnetic field separation
			Ą gaseous diffusion
			Ą laser techniques
		Ą reactors, CANDU, superPhenix, PWR
			Ą safety
		Ą reprocessing, (Sellafield and environmental problems)
		Ą diversion of materials to the military
		Ą waste disposal
			Ą salt mines
		Ą fuel cycles and their relative proliferation risk
		Ą improving material safeguards
			Ą smuggled uranium and plutonium from Russia
			Ą clandestine technology transfer

	4.) A Summary of Global Nuclear Testing (100 pages)
		Ą test treaties: NPT, CTBT, TTBT, PNET, LTBT
		Ą U.S. (Amchitka Peninsula, Nevada Test Site, Pacific Proving 
		   Grounds)
		Ą testimonies by U.S. military and indigenous witnesses
		Ą Russia and the Semipalatinsk Test Site, Novaya Zemlya isles
		Ą U.K. tests in Australia and the Pacific
		Ą French testing in Algeria and Moruroa Atoll
		Ą testimonies by the Polynesians
		Ą Chinese tests at Lop Nur, Xingiang
		Ą India's test at the Rajasthan Desert
		Ą the status of states like Pakistan, N. Korea, S. Africa, Israel,
			Iran, and Iraq
		Ą testing and horizontal/vertical proliferation

	5.) Monitoring Nuclear Testing (50 pages)
		Ą atmospheric testing, and low yield test detection
			Ą bhanghometers
			Ą identifying atmospheric test signatures
			Ą the South Atlantic Vela incident
		Ą detection of underground testing
			Ą basic seismometry
				Ą the earth's interior
				Ą seismometers
				Ą P waves, Rayleigh waves, Love waves, S-waves
				Ą filtering out earthquakes and mining noise 
			Ą spatial arrays
				Ą mini-arrays
				Ą location by sum & delay (phase delays)
				Ą FK transforms
				Ą polarisation filtering
				Ą the GSETT-3 global network
				Ą current resolution levels in decibels
		Ą total test ban verification

	6.) Weapons of the Future (10 pages)
		Ą laser/particle beams
		Ą quark/gluon bombs
		Ą mirror matter devices

	APPENDICES (40 pages)

	a.) A Primer on Basic Physics (middle high school level)
	    Basically a summary of the lectures I give to my freshman
	    nuclear physics students, but with extensive notes to help
	    high school level readers along.
		Ą basic quantum mechanics
		Ą atomic structure
		Ą fission physics
			Ą binding energies
			Ą chain reactions
		Ą fusion physics
		Ą diffusion theory
		Ą hydrodynamics
		Ą fissionable materials
		Ą properties of nuclear weapons materials under different
		  conditions (high temperature and pressure etc)

	b.) List of World Nuclear Tests up to present day, detailing tonnage,
	      location, and other relevant information.

	c.) Maps showing locations of major military nuclear research
	      centres and reactors around the world.

	GLOSSARY (of high energy weapons terms)

	FURTHER READING

	INDEX