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ToughSF on Twitter: "@Skipp_ToMyLou If your nuclear-pumped laser warheads have an effective range of 1000km, you'll still need a missile to carry them across a 10,000km inter-ship separation. That sort of separation
![How feasible would a military-grade x-ray laser be? I'm asking because I've read sci-fi where the successor to 'contact' nuclear warheads are lasers generated by a small nuclear charge inside the warhead. - How feasible would a military-grade x-ray laser be? I'm asking because I've read sci-fi where the successor to 'contact' nuclear warheads are lasers generated by a small nuclear charge inside the warhead. -](https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-ef97e4dc0887a45871c5bcf329d0df08.webp)
How feasible would a military-grade x-ray laser be? I'm asking because I've read sci-fi where the successor to 'contact' nuclear warheads are lasers generated by a small nuclear charge inside the warhead. -
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ToughSF on Twitter: "@Skipp_ToMyLou If your nuclear-pumped laser warheads have an effective range of 1000km, you'll still need a missile to carry them across a 10,000km inter-ship separation. That sort of separation
![ToughSF on Twitter: "@Skipp_ToMyLou If your nuclear-pumped laser warheads have an effective range of 1000km, you'll still need a missile to carry them across a 10,000km inter-ship separation. That sort of separation ToughSF on Twitter: "@Skipp_ToMyLou If your nuclear-pumped laser warheads have an effective range of 1000km, you'll still need a missile to carry them across a 10,000km inter-ship separation. That sort of separation](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DsiYt6rWkAYrImO.jpg)
ToughSF on Twitter: "@Skipp_ToMyLou If your nuclear-pumped laser warheads have an effective range of 1000km, you'll still need a missile to carry them across a 10,000km inter-ship separation. That sort of separation
![A unit cell of a photolytic iodine nuclear-pumped laser fueled with... | Download Scientific Diagram A unit cell of a photolytic iodine nuclear-pumped laser fueled with... | Download Scientific Diagram](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261026851/figure/fig9/AS:296888885628942@1447795234970/A-unit-cell-of-a-photolytic-iodine-nuclear-pumped-laser-fueled-with-reflective-U.png)
A unit cell of a photolytic iodine nuclear-pumped laser fueled with... | Download Scientific Diagram
Casillic on Twitter: "FALCON reactor-pumped laser description and program overview Sandia National Laboratories was examining feasibility of high-power systems pumped directly by energy from nuclear reactor. 1 - 100 MW! love these
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Nuclear Reactor Lasers: from Fission to Photon - Science & Spaceflight - Kerbal Space Program Forums
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