Reply To: Tandem

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I would trust that as a fusion-for-peace collaborator Eric does not appreciate the idea of a DPF being used as a weapon. Certainly military capacity does not necessary mean more war, however I agree that having a large amount of power is a military capacity in itself – imagine a warship armed with a few rail-guns:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_yUNm8Tl9o
or otherwise high powered laser weapons

However I would think in a book of more fiction than science you could image shooting a huge plasmoid at a high velocity into a target and expecting it to explode in a fusion reaction that would also release a large burst of xrays as dangerous radiation. This would probably be a high rate of fire weapon and in terms of operating environment it would be easier to imagine it working in space, however due to ball lightning “myths” it might be possible to explain it working in atmosphere.