One component of the US Strategic Defense Initiative is the nuclear-explosion-pumped X-ray laser. Although there are many obstacles to its development, such a weapon is technically feasible.
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Ritson, D. A weapon for the twenty-first century. Nature 328, 487–490 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1038/328487a0
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