The NIF (National Ignition Facility) has shot high-explosives with the most high-energetic laser in the world.

The NIF (National Ignition Facility) has shot high-explosives with the most high-energetic laser in the world.

The NIF (National Ignition Facility) exploded high-explosive material by using the most powerful laser in the world. The purpose of that test is to find out what happens during explosions. And how the chemical material of explosives will combine with oxygen. That thing allows creating a new type of explosives, what power is more adjustable. The new electromagnetic explosives are more capable than ever before. In this case, we are talking about conventional explosives, what power can adjust by stressing them with electromagnetic radiation.

Electromagnetic explosives are interesting tools because if the energy of explosives can increase in use. That allows for the storage of less explosive materials. In some facilities is tested the explosives that can activate by connecting them with the activation chemical. Which makes them safer to cargo and store. Without that activator, the explosive cannot detonate. But if the power of the explosive can increase with electromagnetic radiation, that thing can make it possible to use the smaller mass of explosives in the targets. 

The simpler version is just to detonate the explosive material by using a laser burst. The energy of the laser will increase the energy of the explosive. But more advanced version would load the electricity to explosive before detonation. That thing can happen by using radio waves, which will load electricity to the iron atoms that are connected in the explosive molecules. In this version, the system simply loads electricity to explosives. 

The new electromagnetic explosives are the most fascinating tools since dynamite. The idea is that the structure of the molecule of the explosive is equipped with iron atoms. When the electromagnetic radiation hits the iron that will load the electricity in it, it increases the power of the explosion.

But the fact is that if the high-explosive material would load with the electromagnetic energy during the explosion, that thing would increase its power. The energy itself cannot vanish. It just can move to another object. So if we can make explosives what has small iron bites inside them. We could theoretically adjust the power of the explosives very accurately. 

In those electromagnetically adjustable explosives, the material would stress by using the electromagnetic radiation before the detonation. If the material cannot release its electromagnetic load before explosion its power can increase to a very high level. 

The new electromagnetically boosted explosives can have similar power to nuclear explosions. But their power can adjust very accurately. This kind of explosive can use in bombs very easily. When the aircraft flies to the target, the electric system loads the power to the explosive. That kind of thing allows storing smaller batches of explosives in storage. 

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