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== Further reading == {{Refbegin}} * {{cite web |last1=Butler |first1=Kenley |first2=Akaki |last2=Dvali |title=Nuclear Trafficking Hoaxes: A Short History of Scams Involving Red Mercury and Osmium-187 |work=nti.org |publisher=[[Nuclear Threat Initiative]] |date=1 April 2004 |url=http://www.nti.org/analysis/articles/nuclear-trafficking-hoaxes/ }} * {{cite book |last1=Croddy |first1=Eric |title=Weapons of Mass Destruction: An Encyclopaedia of Worldwide Policy, Technology, and History |last2=Wirtz |first2=James J. |year=2005 |publisher=[[ABC-CLIO]] |isbn=978-1-85109-490-5 |page=313 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZzlNgS70OHAC&pg=RA1-PA313 }} * {{cite book |last1=Hounam |first1=Peter |author-link=Peter Hounam |first2=Steve |last2=McQuillan |title=The Mini-Nuke Conspiracy: How Mandela Inherited a Nuclear Nightmare |publisher=Viking Adult |date=October 1, 1995 |isbn=978-0-670-86925-1}} 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). * {{cite book |last=Stevens |first=Henry |title=Hitler's Suppressed and Still-Secret Weapons, Science and Technology |isbn=978-1-931882-73-6 |chapter=21 |date=August 2007|publisher=Adventures Unlimited Press }} Citing sources from above, Stevens makes a case that Germany may have developed technology of red mercury during [[World War II]]. * {{cite news |last=Summers |first=Chris |title=What is red mercury? |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5176382.stm |access-date=15 May 2014 |newspaper=[[BBC News]] |date=25 July 2006 }} * {{cite web |url=http://chemistry.about.com/cs/chemicalweapons/f/blredmercury.htm |title=What Is Red Mercury? |work=[[About.com]] |first=Anne Marie |last=Helmenstine |access-date=2004-03-25 |archive-date=2004-08-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040803195804/http://chemistry.about.com/cs/chemicalweapons/f/blredmercury.htm |url-status=dead }} * {{Skeptoid|id=4713|number=713|title=On the Trail of Red Mercury|date=February 4, 2020}} {{Refend}} {{Conspiracy theories}} {{Urban legends}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Red Mercury}} [[Category:Fictional materials]] [[Category:Fictional weapons]] [[Category:Hoaxes in science]] [[Category:Mercury (element)]] [[Category:Nuclear weapons]] [[Category:Pseudoscience]] [[Category:Science and technology-related conspiracy theories]] [[Category:Russian urban legends]]
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