On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:08:33 -0700, Richard Clark
wrote:

The trigger device often employs a charge driven
shorting bar.

Charge here means explosive charge (accelerating the shorting bar into
the capacitor).

It is only a matter of capacitance and low resistance
metalurgy from there.

The capacitor is called a Marx bank (some cold-war irony there) in a
Explosively Pumped Flux Compression Generator. There are issues of
self shorting inductors wound around cylindrical explosive charges and
reams of discussion which all basically devolves to very simple and
fundamental LC with peak IR relationships.

How could it be otherwise?

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC