Destruction of Nuclear Bombs Using Ultra-High Energy Neutrino Beam
TL;DR — A serious proposal to neutralise nuclear warheads anywhere on Earth by firing a neutrino beam through the planet.
⬇ Download the archived copy — kept here so the document survives its source going dark. arXiv preprint (author distribution licence).
arXiv hep-ph/0305062v2, revised June 2003, dedicated to Nobel laureate Masatoshi Koshiba.
The proposal: because neutrinos pass through the Earth almost unimpeded, an ultra-high-energy neutrino beam could be aimed through the planet at a warhead anywhere on the surface and deposit enough energy to melt it or trigger a fizzle — a defence requiring no overflight and no consent.
The paper is honest about what it would take: an accelerator complex far beyond anything built. It is a genuine physics paper about a science-fictional capability, which is exactly why it gets saved.
Where this came from
18 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.