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ToughSF on Twitter: "Gas-core 'lightbulb' nuclear rockets promise great thrust combined with superb specific impulse. This concept suggests to give it a nuclear-pumped laser mode (https://t.co/jgiO3hiw1p) and achieve an 'ultrahigh' specific impulse.
NUCLEAR PUMPED GAS LASER RESEARCH K. Thorn NASA Headquarters ^ 7 6 * 2 1 F51 8 A nuclear-pumped gas laser is excited by the inte
![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/DsiYuotXQAQFFo6.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
![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
![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 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](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DRM_z56UEAENSG5.jpg)
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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How many new weaponized technologies do you think are already deployed and in orbit around our planet? - Quora
Nuclear Reactor Lasers: from Fission to Photon - Science & Spaceflight - Kerbal Space Program Forums
![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)