Casaba-Howitzer
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casaba-howitzer-258-9620539
title:
Casaba-Howitzer
text:
Project Casaba-Howitzer was a 1960s-era study into the use of nuclear weapons as the drivers for intense beams of plasma for use in space warfare. The basic concept grew out of work on the Project Orion spaceship concept, which studied nuclear shaped charges. Very little information about Casaba-Howitzer is known publicly, limited primarily to mentions in defense spending documents during the mid-1960s, and once again in the mid-1980s when the concepts were revived as part of the Strategic Defen
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US 1960s-era study into nuclear weapons to create beams of plasma
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casaba-Howitzer
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2024-03-22T23:06:26Z
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