{"id":27178,"date":"2016-06-24T18:51:53","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T01:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/the-nuclear-spear-casaba-howitzer"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:00:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:00:32","slug":"the-nuclear-spear-casaba-howitzer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/the-nuclear-spear-casaba-howitzer","title":{"rendered":"The Nuclear Spear: Casaba Howitzer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-nuclear-spear-casaba-howitzer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When a nuclear technology has been kept classified since the 60s, you know that it is worth looking into. The Casaba Howitzer is one configuration for a nuclear shaped charge, that can concentrate the power of an atom bomb into a narrow cone.<\/p>\n<p>In this post, we\u2019ll look at its potential configurations, its advantages and limits, and how it can be applied to both propulsion and warfare.<\/p>\n<p><b>Origins<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Before the Casaba Howitzer, there was Project Orion.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/toughsf.blogspot.ie\/2016\/06\/the-nuclear-spear-casaba-howitzer.html\">https:\/\/toughsf.blogspot.ie\/2016\/06\/the-nuclear-spear-casaba-howitzer.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a nuclear technology has been kept classified since the 60s, you know that it is worth looking into. The Casaba Howitzer is one configuration for a nuclear shaped charge, that can concentrate the power of an atom bomb into a narrow cone. In this post, we\u2019ll look at its potential configurations, its advantages and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27178"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56272,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27178\/revisions\/56272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}