Very interesting, also it comes before the news that the nuclear pumped X-Ray laser concept came about from misreading the results of a test. Teller used this f

Very interesting, also it comes before the news that the nuclear pumped X-Ray laser concept came about from misreading the results of a test. Teller used this faulty data to imagine a satellite system that could shoot down 10s of missiles from each satellite. When that seemed to be 'too little', the capabilities of these satellites jumped by an two orders of magnitude twice, each time in response to criticism. "It might be possible to generate as many as 100,000 independently aimable beams from a single x-ray laser module, each of which could be quite lethal even to a distant hardened object [e.g., an RV] in flight. " https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1988/eirv15n44-19881104/eirv15n44-19881104_018-status_of_the_x_ray_laser_the_ex.pdf https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1988/eirv15n44-19881104/e... This was due to an imagined gain of 10^6 to 10^12 over the xray output of a single device. In the PDF it is given as fact that they were able to achieve these gains, where as it was found that there was never any evidence of any x-ray lasing gain found in any nuclear test.