[WayneS]

...a remote-controlled X-ray device hidden in a truck, which he called “Hiroshima on a light switch,”

I suspect this guy's "death ray" would have been more dangerous to the operator than to those he tried to use it against.

[mad_as_he$$]

I spent a wasted 18 months of my time managing an X ray source )for semiconductor processing) project. Tricky stuff to project more than a few centimeters in air with significant power to accomplish much actually activity at the receiving end.