[AFPhys]

I have no idea where that concept came from.

I can tell you there is no physics I know of or engineering concepts I have been able to discover or knowledgeable unclassified discussion of any such "Death-Ray" weapon.

I've posted similar responses to people in the past five or so years, and have never gotten further information, although I have elicited much corroborating information. Like "nuclear winter", the "no-damage neutron bomb" appears to be strictly the result of projecting a headline read by an imaginative fiction writer into a full-blown story based on that headline.

[R. Scott]

I wonder if we will ever have journalists familiar with any field other than journalism.