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The E-bomb : how America's new directed energy weapons will change the way future wars will be fought / Doug Beason.

by Beason, Doug.

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Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, 2005.

Directed-energy weapons.

Nonlethal weapons -- United States.

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0513/2005013291.html

0306814021 (hardcover : alk. paper) :

xiii, 256 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

1st Da Capo Press ed.

Directed energy milestones -- Prelude : a world-changing, disruptive technology -- The promise of directed energy -- What exactly is directed energy? -- The military effectiveness of directed energy -- The problem with directed energy -- The difference between lasers and high-power microwaves -- Prophets of the revolution : high-energy laser weapons -- The Department of Defense wakes up -- Prophets of the revolution : high-power microwaves -- The world's first force field : the Active Denial System -- The birth of the airborne laser -- ABL : the airborne laser -- Making high-energy lasers a global weapon -- Other major DE weapons programs -- The day after tomorrow -- The next generation : fibers, phasing, and terahertz -- This is the end -- Appendix: Types of lasers.

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