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It's hard to imagine scaling this up to be able to throw a ton at a time.

If you want to throw something that heavy, you'll have a much easier time using explosives to do it -- and we've been able to do that for quite a long time now (multi-ton shells were fired in WWI).

All you have to launch is a nuclear warhead.

Sure, but that's frowned upon in the international community.

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