Wikipedia: It has been claimed that it is possible to conceive of a crude, deliverable, pure fusion weapon, using only present-day, unclassified technology

Wikipedia: It has been claimed that it is possible to conceive of a crude, deliverable, pure fusion weapon, using only present-day, unclassified technology. The weapon design[2] weighs approximately 3 tonnes, and might have a total yield of approximately 3 tonnes of TNT. The proposed design uses a large explosively pumped flux compression generator to produce the high power density required to ignite the fusion fuel. From the point of view of explosive damage, such a weapon would have no clear advantages over a conventional explosive, but the massive neutron flux could deliver a lethal dose of radiation to humans within a 500-meter radius (most of those fatalities would occur over a period of months, rather than immediately). [2]: https://scienceandglobalsecurity.org/archive/sgs07jones.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_fusion_weapon#Progress https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_fusion_weapon#Progress Weapons aside, using EPFCG's as a scrapyard substitute for large capacitor banks in fusion power experiments would also be an interesting story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_Star https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_Star https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_Pulsed_Power_Facility https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_Pulsed_Power_Facility