Word: beaming
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...proves technologically feasible, serious questions would arise as to whether it would really strengthen deterrence, and at what cost. Estimates of the money required start at $60 billion for a rudimentary system that would rely on interceptor rockets. Calculations of the cost of a fully developed laser- or particle-beam system run all the way from $100 billion to a staggering $1 trillion. Such a broad range means that all the figures are fairly wild guesses. Indeed, Cory Coll, leader of an S.D.I. research group at the University of California's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, predicts it will be five...
...easiest to find: the intense heat of a missile's rocket thrusters, concedes the anti-S.D.I. Union of Concerned Scientists, makes it stand out "like a firefly in a darkened room." That is also when a missile defense is most efficient: a single hit, by a laser beam, for instance, can destroy ten warheads at once. In post-boost and mid-course phases, the separated warheads are vastly more difficult to find and distinguish from decoys. On re-entry, the decoys burn up, and only the warheads continue to plunge through the atmosphere. But if there...
...rith's Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which investigates extremist groups, says that Ayran Nations and the Klan have set up computer networks that can be reached through telephone numbers in Idaho, Texas and North Carolina. The computer system was established by Louis Beam, a Texas Klan leader and the Aryan Nations' "ambassador-at-larg e." It provides anti- Semitic and racist reading for hackers, as well as an "enemies" list of organizations like the A.D.L...
Even so, it is in large part the fear of Star Wars that brought the Kremlin back to the bargaining table. The Soviets are afraid that U.S. computer wizardry and advances in laser and particle-beam research will leave them far behind in a space arms race. For the past six months Moscow has conducted a deft propaganda campaign of mir i druzhba--peace and friendship--designed to put the onus on the U.S. to avoid what the Soviets call the militarization of space. "It is especially important to avoid the transfer of the arms race to outer space," warned...
...remnants of pulsars rotate and emit radiation at their magnetic poles. Whenever one of the poles turns toward the line of light from the Earth, a pulse of radiation is received. The phenomenon is comparable to the pulse of light emitted by a lighthouse beam...