Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "Cool Worlds" channel.

  1.  @jmpattillo given the immense size of neutrino detectors and their shielding, suffice it to say it'd be undetectable until warhead maintenance requires testing of the pit, which isn't very frequent.
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  2. Gravitational fields can also brake rotation. And the odd elements are still being argued over, with one side suggesting artifact, the other side insisting valid elemental observations. Proximity to a neutron star would both slow rotation and enrich the star with heavy elements, which is where such elements originate anyway - during a neutron star highway accident. Island of stability, yeah and Gilligan's Island and Fantasy Island are the same place. Einsteinium's longest lived isotope has a half-life of 472 days. So, for it to be detected being dumped, speedy delivery of earth sized amounts of the stuff. Yeah, ain't gonna happen. I'm more inclined to think some odd artifact, perhaps from the magnetic field distorting the EM radiation from the star's corona and photosphere.
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  3. Save for that whole refit time at dock or dry dock, when a beam could degrade the warheads. The theory expressed here is shortsighted, as they consider only massive reactions to hopefully fizzle a warhead, but one could beam at much lower intensities and degrade the highly pure weapons grade plutonium or uranium core to a level that, even if used, the weapon would fizzle or even entirely fail to detonate beyond the initiating high explosives yield. The only way to detect it, a neutrino detector at the weapons sites or to physically test all weapons cores on a highly frequent basis that they're still weapons grade. And no need for James Bond crap, everyone knows where everyone else's warheads are stored, where the bombs and missiles are stored, that's ancient news from the Cold War and hell, part of various treaties for verification purposes. Hell, we used to allow Russian surveillance aircraft to overfly our nuclear weapons sites for treaty verification purposes, then Trump came along and derailed that treaty.
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