[ntype]

http://www.primidi.com/2005/06/08.html#a1214

Imagine a gun sending bullets at 34 kilometers per second, faster than Earth moves through space. This is the new speed record recently broken by the Z machine at Sandia National Laboratories (SNL). With this machine, Sandia researchers have "accelerated a small plate from zero to 76,000 mph in less than a second." But not for long: their bullets are very small aluminum plates -- only 30 mm by 15 mm in cross-section, and 850 microns thick. And the "bullets" don't go very far. They can strike their targets after only five millimeters, but their impacts create incredible shock waves, reaching up to 15 million times the atmospheric pressure. Among other things, the researchers hope that their machine will help them to stabilize the U.S. nuclear stockpile without having to explode a nuclear weapon or to better understand what's inside Saturn and Jupiter. Read more...

This spectacular picture shows the "arcs and sparks" produced during the Z machine shootings (Credit: Sandia National Laboratories).

ps : much bigger pic link available on the website.

[Blueeyedwoman]

At the beginning there was nothing ... which exploded.

[Shadrach]

the researchers hope that their machine will help them to stabilize the U.S. nuclear stockpile without having to explode a nuclear weapon

This intrigues me...

[Bill]

what's wrong with having a missile sihlo in your back yard?

[ntype]

my bad I quoted some "pickpaille" suck off (he's quite known to be attract people with bad ripoffs (he doesn't give out credits).

Anyhow original link with MORE explanations :

http://www.sandia.gov/news-center/news-r...aturn.html

and the question about regulating bombs is because they create states in which the matter behave in very extreme conditions (center of jupiter/saturn and while an explosion of a A-bomb).