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How could a disruptor weapon feasibly work?
(lemmy.world)
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So…. Wouldn’t a fission bomb be a “disruptor bomb”?
What you describe sounds an awful lot like the reaction in nuclear fission (with neutrons knocking a cascade of other neutrons out of atoms.).
Maybe a disruptor beam is just a neutron beam that causes a cascading reaction in more than just the typical “fissionable” materials. This is where we get the fun technobabble!