Red Beard

Polonium 210 has a half-life of only 210 days, meaning that the initiator had to be replaced regularly — there are references in Air Ministry files to short life initiators... (needing renewal every six months) , and the later Red Beard weapon had to be re-furbished at six-monthly intervals . ... 

Blue Danube and Red Beard obviously had many features in common since the hssile cores of Blue Danube can be converted for Red Beard in half a day s work at AWRE. They cannot afterwards be used in Blue Danube . ... 

Figure 5.3. Red Beard — the successor to Blue Danube, and often described as a tactical nuclear weapon.

Figure 5.4. Red Beard was carried by Supermarine Scimitar aircraft flying off Royal Navy aircraft carriers. These diagrams show the LABS, or low altitude bombing system, to be used when dropping a Red Beard warhead on targets at sea — in effect, units of the Soviet Navy.

The quantity of fissile material in the core of these devices still remains classified, but a cost analysis undertaken for the Treasury makes interesting reading. Thus for Red Beard, a memo stated that 22 warheads had been sold in 1959/60, containing 100.76 kg costed at 92,000 per kilogram. This works out at 4.58 kg per warhead. Since the cores of Red Beard and Blue Danube were virtually identical, it could be assumed that the core of Blue Danube was also 4.58 kg. 

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Hodgson H.G. Beard, JCS 1926, 149 15 2 3)H.H. Hodgson F.H. Moore, JCS 1926, 174 2 Mononi troch I orohy droxy benza I deh y de-(4 nitrophenylhydrazone, 02N.C6H4. NH.N CH.-C6H2Cl(N02).OH mw 336.69, N 16.64 %. Six isomers are known 2-Nitro-4-chloro-3-hydroxy-, dk red-brn ndls(from AcOH), mp 275 -76°(dec) 2-Nitro-6-chloro-3-hydroxy, orn ndls(from dil AcOH), mp 25 6-5 7°(dec) 4-Nitro-2-chloro-3 -hydroxy, orn ndls(from AcOH), mp 294-95° (dec) 4-Nitro-6-chloro-3-hydroxy-, brick-red ndls(from AcOH), mp 284-86°(dec) 6-Nitro-2 -chloro-3-hydroxy, om-red ndls(from dil AcOH), mp 232-33° and 3-Nitro-6-chloro-4... 

Dinitro-2-chloro-3-bydroxy-(4-nitropbenyl-hydrazone), dk red ndls(from AcOH), mp 277-79°(dec)(Refs 1 4) and 3,3 -Dinitro-2-chloro-4 -hydroxy-(4 -nitropbenyl-hydrazone), reddish-brn ndls(from dil AcOH), mp 267°(dec)(Refs 2 5). These derivs were prepd by the general method of Hodson Beard (Ref 3) in which the appropriate aldehyde, dissolved in dil AcOH, was treated gradually with an aq soln of p- nitrophenylhydrazine until pptn ceased. The hydrazone was formed in quantitative yield... 

The endangered black-bearded, or red-backed, bearded saki (Chiropotes satanas) lives between the Orinoco and Amazon rivers and has bare red skin patches on its face. The white-nosed bearded saki (C. albina-sus) lives primarily south of the Amazon. 

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Thomas sits on his bike across the street watching Amanda through the window. A pile of Amanda s letters neatly tied under a red velvet bow sits in his basket. Thomas straightens his eyebrows and readjusts his beard. 

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