Judging by kritischmasse’s avatar and signuature you can tell where the “mini nuke” comes from.
I actually have extensive first hand knowledge of certain weapons, TOW is not DU.
Festamus is so right that he wins the Mr Right award.
Lets not get silly with Nukes (as my old Col used to say when we were targetting the Buggers in the Cold War).
True, The TOW rely entirely in the shaped charge effect to defeat armor.
Ooooh. Priiiiddy! 
High speed antitank missile LOSAT against Bunker.
http://media.putfile.com/MIsil-de-Hipervelocidad-LOSAT-contra-bunker
Hollow charge or shaped charge is nothing new. Use very effectively at Eben Emael and was the standard attack for hand held AT weapons, as it did not rely on velocity to penetrate armour. It is also used a cutting method by sappers on demolitions. I also saw many years ago a shaped charge for cutting mouse holes that came in a roll and the thickness of a pen. You cut to length and put round the area you wanted to cut. You can make your own shaped charge with two cans and some PE.
Which came from this site near the bottom and explains the maths.
It has all the maths you will need (and I don’t understand it either) to answer any questions on mini nukes.
And from the opening lines
Explosives
- Introduction
An explosion is a physical or chemical phenomenon in which energy is released in a very short time, usually accompanied by formation and vigorous expansion of a very large amount of hot gas: - Mechanical explosions are caused by the sudden breaking of a vessel containing gas under pressure
- Chemical explosions are caused by decomposition or very rapid reaction of a product or a mixture
- Nuclear explosions are caused by fission or fusion of atomic nuclei
- Electrical explosions are caused by sudden strong electrical currents that volatilize metal wire (exploding wire)
And a nice diagrame of Trigate,
As for DU and penetrators. Tank guns use this as they can reach the kinetic power to make them work. This probability has more to do with
http://www.socialistviewpoint.org/sept_03/sept_03_08.html
radio activeness of the round then actually producing a nuclear explosion. The DU penetrator when cutting through the armour will get very hot (friction from air on rout to the tank and on cutting through the armour) and the outer layers will melt. At to it burning I could not comment, as my physics never reached that level. But I do know that there is no nuclear explosion.
If you read the Socialist article, within the first lines you can see they are talking about things they know nothing about,
usually stored at secure sites.
All ammo is stored in secure sites, and the big ones I visited in Germany were heavily camouflaged. I have guarded real nuclear weapons and it is a little different from security of normal tank ammo.
Handlers need radiation protection gear.
So all tank crew now need full IPE or are they confusing the use of IPE for normal NBC weapons with the use of DU rounds. I wish I had taken photos of tank crews striped to the waist bombing up.
thanks Dani :oops:
The only AT type weapon I know that could be getting confused with DU is the one (sorry can’t remember the name) with a copper plate in it. The Americans mounted one on a remotecontrol quad.
It looks like a radar dish and is fired in a recoilless weapon style, and when it hits the target a secondary charge fires the copper plate straight through the target.
The DVD I have says the missile is a Swedish RBS 56 BILL, not a TOW.