“The method describes will convert nearly all the energy in a matter/antimatter reaction into a gamma-ray laser beam, producing thrust. Like most propulsion systems this can probably be weaponized.”

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Larry Niven codified this as the Kzinti Lesson in 1970: "a reaction drive's efficiency as a weapon is in direct proportion to its efficiency as a drive."

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