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...powerful laser, which is housed in cavernous quarters the size of a football field. The juxtaposition of the two objects is apt, and for several reasons. Like Shiva, the $176 million laser bristles with its equivalent of arms: ten bright blue tubes, each a conduit for an intense laser beam. And like Shiva, Nova will dance to a schizophrenic tune: it could benefit life --and perhaps help to destroy...
After the giant laser is dedicated in a ceremony at Livermore this week, scientists will employ its intense beam of light in an attempt to weld the nuclei of hydrogen atoms, releasing bursts of energy at temperatures exceeding those at the center of the sun. Should they succeed in harnessing nuclear fusion, they could point the way toward a limitless supply of cheap, clean power. "Once we crack the problem of fusion," says John Emmett, associate director for lasers at Livermore, "we have an assured source of energy for as long as you want to think about it. It will...
...notably telegrams and telex, remain profitable but have come under pressure from new rivals like in-house corporate message networks. In seeking other opportunities, Western Union has gone off in an unwieldy number of directions. Its ventures have ranged from making mobile- telephone equipment to building ground stations that beam messages to satellites...
...warhead to destroy it by sheer impact. They are potentially effective at any stage from boost to re-entry, and can be fired either from the ground or from space. Their technology is well enough developed to make them available by the 1990s, much earlier than any of the beam weapons. Indeed, a terminal defense of sorts could be put into place right now. Main drawbacks: the range of kinetic-energy weapons is measured in hundreds rather than thousands of miles, and the top speed researchers are trying to reach for any projectile is about 25 miles per second...
...World Trade Center by firing a rifle bullet from the top of the John Hancock Building in Chicago. The sensors also would have to flash back instantaneous assessments of what targets had been hit, so that a battle station would not waste vital seconds aiming a laser or particle beam at a missile or warhead already destroyed...