Image: Excalibur firing
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Description: Excalibur was a proposed x-ray laser based anti-missile technology. It used a nuclear warhead surrounded by a number of metal rods that acted to focus the output of the explosion into narrow beams that would be aimed at nuclear missiles and their warheads. This image shows a single Excalibur exploding in the upper left of the image and firing at three targets. In practice, each warhead would fire at dozens or thousands of targets at once
Title: Excalibur firing
Credit: https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-ten-most-bizarre-ideas-for-using-nuclear-weapons-1578230505
Author: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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