The Nazi Plan to Build an Orbital Death Ray: Sun gun to fry cities from Space

During the tumultuous times of World War II, a myriad of weapon concepts and plans were devised by various nations, some of which never progressed beyond the theoretical stage. Among these was a concept developed by German scientists, often referred to as the “sun gun.” The idea was to create a weapon that could harness the power of the sun to cause destruction from orbit. Death rays, while they are normally considered the stuff of fiction, real scientists (I’ll leave it up to you to decide if they’re mad or not) have tried to develop their own versions of the…