Welcome back to the FLUCTUS channel for a discussion about how the U.S. is testing since decades now superpotent laser weapons in the air, on land, and at sea. Fluctus is a website and YouTube channel dedicated to sea geeks.

ZEUS relied on a reconfigured target for its debut demonstration, which required firing a laser pulse at a cell containing helium. The subsequent interaction produced plasma as it tore electrons away from the helium atoms,

The University of Michigan’s ZEUS is now the country’s most powerful with pulses lasting just 25 quintillionths of a second.