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Half a Century of Laser Weapons

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Abstract

Even before the laser was invented, science fiction writers saw rich potential in the use of light-beam “death rays” as powerful tools of destruction. But the real history of directed-energy weapons in the United States has been fraught with political and technical challenges and setbacks.

© 2009 Optical Society of America

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