From: mikkelhaaheim@gmail.com   
      
   Okay, this is just off the top of my head from reading these three posts...   
   Weaponisation is not a principle interest of mine... But your exchange forces   
   me to ask if perhaps it might be possible to use the c-howitzer concept to   
   essentially pump an ion    
   laser. A shaped-charge nuclear blast would generate a plasma pulse that   
   threads an oscillating magnetic field, producing a laser pulse. This should   
   produce a yield not possible with current electron lasers because the energy   
   cost of generating the free    
   electrons is usually too high. Furthermore, at closer ranges, the plasma might   
   remain intact, so that it drills through right behind the laser beam.   
      
   Keep in mond, this is not even back-of-the-envelope work. It is entriely   
   possible, and likely, that therre is no way this would work. I just wanted to   
   through it into the mix.   
      
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