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Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth
Uh, maybe, but they did actually use it, so it seems unlikely that the gun is too dangerous to be on the non-muzzle end of...at least in the hands of people who know what they're doing with it.
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"Firing by remote control from a pit designed to limit explosion damage" does not count as anything sufficiently similar to "actual use" to me. They were obviously concerned about it exploding.
I doubt they were trying to prevent proliferation of a dangerous weapon. It looks more like trying to prevent copying of a dangerous experiment.
I also stand by my belief that there must have been some way to build up pressure. I simply do not believe there is any possible scheme for increasing surface area that will get around the heat transfer problem. 10x "utterly inadequate" is still pretty inadequate.