红水银
此条目介绍的是风传的一种高能量物质。关于汞溴红、红药水，请见“红汞”。此条目可能包含原创研究。 (2016年4月29日) |
红水银（Red Mercury，或称红汞）是一种虚构的物质，传闻为苏联在冷战时期研制，通过纯水银和氧化汞锑放置在核反应堆内辐照二十天，则制造出的这种呈红色的廉价但辐射度极高的物料。传说红水银每立方公分重达二十点二公克（20.2 g/cm3），密度更胜于铀（19.1 g/cm3）；只需把棒球大小的份量制成肮脏弹，就已足以造成灾难性破坏。但由于至今仍无力证据证明红水银的存在，科学家对红水银到底是甚么莫衷一是。被质疑以如此高能量密度的辐射物，稳定性不足，难以制造炸弹。所有相关讨论都与苏联相关连，故部份专家认为是坏心人士散播的谣言。
大众文化
在布鲁斯·威利斯2013年主演的《超危险特工2：狠战》中，红色水银是冷战时期被研制出来并被藏在克里姆林宫内的一个秘密武器。
延伸阅读
- Peter Hounam, Steve McQuillan, The Mini-Nuke Conspiracy: How Mandela Inherited a Nuclear Nightmare, Viking Adult（October 1, 1995）ISBN 0-670-86925-2. This book made the claim that South Africa had made red mercury, and used it to construct a thousand miniature tactical nuclear weapons, that were now in the hands of non-governmental South African right-wing elements which intended to make use of them in the near future (of 1995).
- Henry Stevens, Hitler's Suppressed and Still-Secret Weapons, Science and Technology ISBN 978-1-931882-73-6. in Chapter 21, citing sources from above, Stevens makes a case that Germany may have developed technology of Red Mercury during World War II.
- Cherry red and very dangerous By Rob Edwards 1995年4月29日, 全文（英文）
参见
现实存在的红色含汞物质：
参考资料
- ^ Aum Shinrikyo, Al Qaeda, and the Kinshasa Reactor (PDF). DTIC.
According to press accounts, Osama bin Laden and his associates were tricked into paying for material called “Red Mercury,” which they believed to be weapons-grade nuclear material. Stefan Leader, “Osama bin Laden and the Terrorist Search for WMD,” Jane’s Intelligence Review, Vol. 11, No. 6, June 1999.
- ^ ISIS的“终极武器”幻想（一）：神秘的红水银 C. J. CHIVERS 2015年11月30日 纽约时报中文网
外部链接
- BBC News: What is Red Mercury? （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）
- About.com: What is Red Mercury? （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）
- Butler, Kenley; Akaki Dvali. Nuclear Trafficking Hoaxes: A Short History of Scams Involving Red Mercury and Osmium-187. NTI. Nuclear Threat Initiative. 1 April 2004 [19 February 2012]. （原始内容存档于2021-02-24）.