Another good reason to cooperate with the Russians.
"The device was designed by Tomsk pulsed-power head Alexandar Kim with the switch developed by Boris Kovalchuk; its speed-up from a microsecond to 100 nanosecond firing was urged by Sandia manager Dillon McDaniel, and encouraged by Sandia managers Rick Spielman and Ken Struve; the work was led at Sandia and Tomsk by Sandia researcher Mike Mazarakis; testing at Sandia was by Bill Fowler and Robin Sharpe; the Z-IFE fusion energy program at Sandia was initiated and is managed by Craig Olson."
Arf