Does Red Mercury Exist?

[Admiral Valdemar]

Red Mercury, I've heard about this years ago and only just recalled it, does anyone seriously think this secret allotrope the Soviets supposedly created ever existed or was it all a hoax?

[h0rus]

Red Mercury, I've heard about this years ago and only just recalled it, does anyone seriously think this secret allotrope the Soviets supposedly created ever existed or was it all a hoax?

"Last Saturday I spoke with Sam Cohen, a U.S. nuclear weapons expert credited with inventing the neutron bomb. I asked Cohen how he would answer critics who ridicule the idea of red mercury fusion. According to Cohen, "These people don't understand the laws of physics." He further stated that red mercury "is a compound with tremendous energy density." In all likelihood, Russia has successfully fabricated this compound using "ultra high pressure technology," Cohen explained. "You knock all these electrons out so it's not the same atom. It pulls a lot more energy per gram than any other explosive that I've ever heard of."

"Its explosive power is so great that red mercury can trigger a fusion reaction. "The Atomic Energy Commission denies red mercury," Cohen said, "but they lie through their teeth. And they have to.""

Ah, of course, the worldwide conspiracy theory.

How would 'knocking electrons out of an atom' lead to smaller devices with a high-yield?

Another source: http://www.raphaelvishanu-world.at/redmerc.html

Google turns out a link to 'prisonplanet.com', which has the above quotes.

[Master of Ossus]

I suppose it exists--cinnabar is a Mercury oxide that is red.

In the form you're claiming, I HIGHLY doubt it.

[Admiral Valdemar]

I suppose it exists--cinnabar is a Mercury oxide that is red.

In the form you're claiming, I HIGHLY doubt it.

I was wondering about what people thought about it, I have my doubts, but the Soviets came up with some wacky stuff in their heyday.