Somewhere along my travels I came across a link about Red Mercury. This is a substance that may or may not exist, and may or may not actually be exotic.
Red Mercury is supposably some sort of super substance that increases the explosive power of nuclear weapons. Sort of like naqahdriah in Stargate. There’s been people saying that Red Mercury exists and does different things for 20 years now. Of course, what it does seems to depend on who you ask. Sometimes it’s an enhancer. Sometimes it’s fissionable material. Sometimes it’s actual reddish mercury. Sometimes it’s some type of mercury from Russia. Sometimes, it’s not even mercury, nor from Russia. All four quadrants of the real/fake-covert/open matrix filled.