  Photo- and electro-disintegration techniques have been traditionally used for
studying giant dipole resonances and through them nuclear structure. Over a
long period, detailed theoretical models for the giant dipole resonances were
proposed and low energy electron accelerators were constructed to perform
experiments to test their veracity. More recently, through laser and "smart"
material devices, electrons have been accelerated in condensed matter systems
up to several tens of MeV. We discuss here the possibility of inducing
electro-disintegration of nuclei through such devices. It involves a synthesis
of electromagnetic and strong forces in condensed matter via giant dipole
resonances to give an effective "electro-strong interaction" - a large coupling
of electromagnetic and strong interactions in the tens of MeV range.
