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A 21-inch torpedo weighing 3,520 pounds will sit sealed on the floor of a strait for months, listen, fire its 650-pound warhead under a passing keel and break the ship’s back, and the only reason anybody knows it exists is an undergraduate reading budget papers
A drone clamps onto a ship’s hull below the waterline and crawls it bow to stern hunting 15-pound magnetic charges built to fire if anybody pulls one off, a search that today still means a diver feeling along steel he cannot see
150 box-truck-sized modules will ring one fusion chamber in Albuquerque, dump 80 megajoules at the same instant, hit a pea of hydrogen with a pulse thousands of times stronger than lightning, crush it in under 100 billionths of a second, and two of them are built
A 6-million-pound machine named Wilma was shipped to Austria in 80,000 pieces across 170 special loads, rebuilt in a chamber cut into the mountain, and spent 706 days boring north until she broke into a 34-mile hole that crews had dug toward her from another country