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November 29, 2005
DEW Unto Others
Directed-Energy Weapons have arrived -- and, one can surmise, are here to stay. I have covered this topic at length before. The proliferation of these weapons seemed no less inevitable or troublesome this summer, and the asymmetry of warfare that's brought us IEDs and nightmares of dirty bombs in backpacks will only be exacerbated by the possibilities of infinitely-variable handheld lasers. Thank R&D for its own sake, and an industry that puts institutional inertia as top priority. But an open universe eventually includes every problem along with every profit.
Posted by James G. Poulos at November 29, 2005 11:37 AM
