紅水銀
紅水銀（Red Mercury，或称红汞）是一种虚构的物质，傳聞为蘇聯在冷戰时期研製，通过純水銀和氧化汞銻放置在核反應堆內輻照二十天，则製造出的這種呈紅色的廉價但輻射度極高的物料。传说紅水銀每立方公分重達二十點二公克（20.2 g/cm3），密度更勝於鈾（19.1 g/cm3）；只需把棒球大小的份量製成骯髒彈，就已足以造成災難性破壞。但由於至今仍无力證據證明紅水銀的存在，科學家對紅水銀到底是甚麼莫衷一是。被質疑以如此高能量密度的輻射物，穩定性不足，難以製造炸彈。所有相關討論都與蘇聯相關連，故部份專家認為是壞心人士散播的謠言。
延伸閱讀
- 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.
外部連結
- BBC News: What is Red Mercury? （页面存档备份，存于）
- About.com: What is Red Mercury? （页面存档备份，存于）
- Butler, Kenley; Akaki Dvali. . NTI. Nuclear Threat Initiative. 1 April 2004 [19 February 2012]. （原始内容存档于2021-02-24）.
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