Why hasn't America rolled out NEUTRON BOMBS in Iraq and to use against Iran/ Afghanistan?

Question

A Neutron bomb is an enhanced energy weapon.
IT IS NOT THE SAME AS A NUCLEAR BOMB.
Basically a neutron bomb delivers a megadose of nuetron radiation to its target WITHOUT the blast effect produced by a Nuclear bomb.

For example, if I used a nuetron bomb, it would kill every living thing in the blast radius BUT, it would leave the buildings intact - the radiation dissipates within a few days unlike the radioactive half life of thousands of years caused by nuclear bombs.
Its the kind of weapon you'd use against heavily armed/ armored bunkers or well entrenched enemies i.e, Hezbollah.
All you gotta do later is sweep up the bodies.

For all of you people who like to coment about my thoughts on seeing dead women and children...
What is the difference between CARPET BOMBING people and using a weapon like a Neutron-bomb?

The effect on the lives is the same...the only difference is, I haven't destroyed all the buildings and homes so its easier to rebuild later on.

Answer 1

Sounds like a good idea if they work as proposed.

A Neutron Bomb is not as powerful or as devastating as a Nuclear bomb. The radiation DOES dissiapate faster and since there is less blast, it doesn't do as much damge to the environment.

I favor the use of powerful weapons that don't devastate the environment.

Answer 2

Because the radiation part of the nuclear weapon is what worries a lot of people. Most of the world's population is not within the blast radius of any particular nuclear bomb but nearly everyone is within the fallout zone of its radiation.

To make a bomb with just the radiation will still leave fallout around the world to some extent. I think most people would be more comfortable with a bomb that had only the blast effect of a nuke and NO radiation...sort of like giant daisy cutters.

Answer 3

Look- I understand the thought, but think about the inncocent. No matter what happens in Iraq or Afganistan there will always be innocent bystanders who just happen to live there. Think of this in another way. Lets take a country that does not like our ideas- France (sterotype needed for example) thats like France saying "lets use a Neutron Bomb on America- lets not think of the inncoent people lets justdo it because were pissed at their president"

Another reason it that if a person did survive then later in their life they would be diagnoised with serious side affects health-wise

You Dig it?

Answer 4

America is not in Iraq, the United States is.

That said, neutron bombs were outlawed several decades ago, possession and/or development of the technology is illegal.

"the radiation dissipates within a few days"
This must be some type of special radiation you've just invented, no such thing exists in nature.

As for the difference between carpet bombing and your proposed method, from a moral point of view none. From a real point of view, a world of difference. Exposure to radiation does not necessarily kill everybody instantly, the vast majority would live for a week or two, these people KNOW they are literally speaking 'walking dead men'. Can you imagine what people who KNOW they are already dead are capable of doing?

That is why they were outlawed.

Answer 5

While we do have that technology it has been banned globally and we have agreed to not use them. We try very hard to fight our conflicts with a minimum of civilian casualties and those types of weapons would have the opposite effect. Believe me, if we just wanted to kill lots of people that would be no problem with the various conventional weapons we do deploy. You should read some on the end of WW2 to get an idea what our capabilities are without nukes when we choose to disreguard human life. In short, if we wanted to "win the war" by sterelizing the Middle East it would be no problem without nukes of any kind.

Answer 6

I suspect that you have played far too many video games and have spent even far more time listening to Rush LimpDick, and watching Bill O' Really....Heejus! the kind of people that call themselves Americans. Get a life! Take a trip around the world without your Mastercard, and become honestly educated. After that, I guarantee you'll be forever free of thinking about, much less asking such an inane question.

Answer 7

Many years ago, we made the POLITICAL decision to not produce the enhanced radiation (Neutron Bomb) weapons.

This was not a military decision.

Answer 8

I prefer the nude bomb (Some old movie with Don Adams) It blows everyone's clothes off and they are too embarrassed to fight.

Answer 9

Jimmy Carter refused to allow any to be built. It would be ideal in the mountainous terrain of Afghanistan but---you know Jimmy.

Answer 10

Why kill what you can control, and then if we were to try and mine oil from there we'd need very expensive shielding equipment, it's not a lucrative endevour.