Arthur C. Clarke is a writer who brought up many great ideas that could become a reality and now DARPA will try to develop a weapon inspired from the 1955 Earthlight novel. The weapon that DARPA plans to build is based on the Stiletto which is “a solid bar of light” and with it you may pierce through a spacecraft.

DARPA named their weapon MAHEM or Magneto Hydrodynamic Explosive Munition and it make use of the magnetic fields in order to “propel either a narrow jet of molten metal or a chunk of molten metal that morphs into an aerodynamic slug during flight”. If DARPA manages to develop MAHEM then we hope that they will use it for good purposes.