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What would be the advantage of a bomb built out of this technology as opposed to an H-bomb?

How do you know it's not the other way around:

That they're using the gigantic piggy bank of the military to fund actual fusion research?

I agree that ICF doesn't seem like a winning strategy. But surely it's not complete waste, either, right?

You can't build a bomb using this technology. Period.

But you can achieve plasmas of equivalent density and temperature to those you get in an H-bomb explosion, which is invaluable to weapons researchers if they're not allowed to actually detonate any bombs.

It sounds like you know, so I'm curious...

Why is it so valuable to create those temperatures for researchers?

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