From: utzoo!decvax!duke!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!philabs!sdcsvax!davidson
Newsgroups: net.physics
Title: Re: rail-guns
Article-I.D.: sdcsvax.4
Posted: Fri Dec 10 02:27:46 1982
Received: Sun Dec 12 01:40:33 1982
References: sri-unix.4655

The rail gun works by accelerating a conductor between two rails which
are conducting an enormous current.  One approach to creating the
current pulse is to compress a strong magnetic field with explosives.
There was an article on rail guns and mass drivers in IEEE Spectrum
earlier this year.

Greg