Sentences with phrase «hafnium bomb»

A few years ago, DARPA, which prides itself on promoting far - out projects, proposed spending $ 30 million on a «hafnium bomb,» a type of nuclear weapon intended to release energy from atomic nuclei without either fission or fusion, using an approach similar to how energy is extracted from electrons in a laser.

Hafnium bombs: In an episode reminiscent of the Cold Fusion debacle, DARPA forked out $ 7 million in the 1990s for research into a bomb predicted to release huge gamma - ray bursts without creating any nuclear fallout.