there's extra neutrons, makes it bigger. that's why i look at neutron, the nucleus is bigger and as you mentioned there, paul, more unstable and away you go. so these things are radioactive by-products, good or bad? oh, it depends. usually bad. what are you gonna do with them? okay. these are emitting radiations themselves. so that's a hassle and we're all familiar with the radioactive waste problem. but you know what, gang? there's a brighter side to the whole story of nuclear power. instead of talking about losing mass by going down-- this is like an energy hill, you read that in the textbook? think of it as an energy hill. you're rolling down the hill, you're picking up energy. that's what you're doing. you're kinda losing mass and that mass that you're losing so to speak, is what? goes off as energy. but here we have right in the middle, what's this element right here, gang, in the very, very bottom? iron. iron. and that's atomic number 26. how about over here? how about you taking an element like right about here? how a

i don't even understand the chemistry but the lithium and neutrons better than physicists thought theyould and the result was this explosion went off at about 250% of the anticipated yield. with 2.5 times more powerful than anybody expected to be and it was by far already the most powerful explosion that had ever occurred, anywhere on the face of the earth. the guys who pushed the trigger new something was wrong right away. they were in the bunker on the other side of the lagoon 30 miles away from the device and a couple seconds after the touch the trigger and the fire ball went off but before they could hear anything the bunker started to move backwards. they realized what was happening was they were feeling the ground shock which travels faster than the speed of sound. no one had ever felt that before because normally the earth and absorbs the ground shock. but this explosion was so big that it actually rocked the bunker 30 miles away and alarmed everybody right away. the third thing that went wrong with this test was it sent thousands of tons of highly irradiated quarrel and pulveri

their doors in greece a twenty four hour nationwide strike season people think the purity despite a neutron chill may not catch that story ahead feed. and russia so you could last off to obits from that like oh of course which i mean kazakhstan with a crew of three on board well the details on that and more after the break. is he. in the. world of. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the huge earth covered. ok about more world news for you now here in r.t. . greece has ground to a halt with public sector workers walking out of the jobs in a twenty four hour nationwide strike aimed at putting pressure on the government over tough cuts recent good news such as the latest challenge of a baby that cash on a decision by ratings agency standard and poor's to raise the country's credit rating has done little to dissipate public anger or crisis a strategist comes out of there a says that neither piece of news is of a tangible benefit to the struggling population. the fact that the ratings agencies gave us higher rating to be green bombs and yet the

somebody had some new neutron bomb they wanted to deploy or something like this. we could go to the president and tell him this would make deployment and arms control efforts that much more difficult. in most foreign policy issues washington has to address and any administration has to address the allies are taken into account but not in the same way as they were in the whole inf process. >> if you all have some questions this is your moment in the sun, just raise your hand and i will try to recognize you. >> to take into account for many people who have dealt with the united states, understand in the case of the allies these were very strong leaders, and they insisted on their views anomaly being taken into account the being made part of what we are doing. >> raise your hand if you have a question. [talking over each other] >> no shortage of microphones. >> please raise your hand. >> give your name a few would. [inaudible] >> my mentor all those years ago, and big men. is there any hope today we still have big people on the scene who can write for history, someon

, to detect neutrons in the environment.with the storm shelter, it is where we're trying to figure out what logistics and things can we use on orbit and that's one of our options that we can create the -- the crew would have a safe haven or place to go to where they have a safer area from the effects of solar particles. >> want to bring in chad myers here, a space enthusiast. among other things, meteorologist, ask some questions as well. >> i always wanted to know, you know, we know why the earth doesn't get radiation is because of the poles, the north pole, the energy and the radiation goes around the earth. why can't we build something like that on the iss or on a spacecraft where the magneticsphere we build would send the radiation away from the men and women out there. >> you mean like a maget? >> yeah. >> like magnets to deflect? >> yeah. >> it's heavy. you have to look at the amount of mass it would take to add that kind of protection. >> when i bought first house, built in 1961, there was a radiation shelter inside be

isn't that already the neutron bomb of indebtedness? >> well, potentially, brian.sitting there basically in reserves that the banks are unwilling to lend, so ultimately it provides the fire power, but not just yet. i think steve has it exactly right, though. the expansion to $1 trillion annually a year in terms of check writing is significantly potent in terms of potential inflation. it it just depends upon the private sector taking the bait and providing animal spirits to that fire power. >> i don't know if you saw at the top of the show, our crack team made a demonstration of ben bernanke pulling the economy over the cliff. if we go over, automatic tax cuts, automatic spending hikes on everybody, we must add, does ben bernanke and the merry band of fed governors have the strength and the ability and the fire power to pull us back? >> they've already admitted that, if we were to go over the fiscal cliff, there's little that the fed can do in terms of tools to create the kind of a scenario that we would like to see. so fortunately, the arguments for getting a deal

so somebody had some wacky new neutron on a wonder to deploy or something like this, we could go to the make inf deployment and arms control efforts that much more difficult. most foreign policy issues that washington has to address, that any administration has to address, the allies are taken into account, but not same way they were in this whole inf process. >> go ahead. before you go, if you all have some question, this is your moment in the sun. just raise your hand and i'll try to recognize you. >> rick used a phrase taken to kronk. many people understand that's a subtle brushoff. in the case of the allies, these are very strong leaders and they insisted on their views not even taken into account, but a part of what we were doing. >> hand if you have a question. [inaudible conversations] >> anyone who has questions, please raise your hand. >> break here, ray. >> please give your name if you would, please. >> thanks to roxanne ridgway of this years ago, thank you. big men write history. is there any hope today that we still have people, men or women on the scene who can write from h

so somebody had some wacky new neutron bomb they wanted to deploy or something like this. we could go to the president and tell him, this is going to make inf deployment and their arms control efforts that much more difficult. most foreign-policy issues that washington has to address and any administration has to address, allies are taking account but not in the same way they were in this whole inf trust us. >> go ahead, ros. before you go, if you all have some questions, this is your moment in the sun. just raise your hand and i will try to recognize you. >> taking into account the many people who have dealt with united states and we understand this is just a subtle brush off. in the case of the allies, these were very strong leaders and they insisted on their views being taken into account and being a part of what we were doing. >> okay, please raise your hand if you have a question. >> there's a shortage of microphones. >> anyone who has a question, please raise your hand. >> thank you, on the right. >> please give your name if you would, please. >> thanks to roz ridgwa

and the carter administration, having reversed its decision, famous neutron bomb, really rattled theuropeans, but especially helmut schmidt. so you have to really do i think the early steps taken to what became the double track decision, deployment of cruise missiles inversion two, and as a reaction to those uncertainties. in that area. now, it's interesting, the reagan administration inherited the nato double track decision. and it wasn't prepared to kind of think through the consequences of that. one big issue we immediately faced, and marvin we have talked about this unprecedented in a political protest going on in europe in the early '80s, it was really i think focus on the belief that the reagan administration wasn't really serious about negotiating a solution. it was only in rebuilding american military power, a concern that led that there could be a conflict in europe. and when the reagan administration inherited a double track decision, one of the first issues yet to address was, well, are we going to get into these negotiations to reduce these intermediate range nuclear miss