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...INTERACTIVE GRAPHICS Map: The Planned Barrier Mideast: The Four Sticking Points Map: Mideast Flash Points Israel: A Land Divided...
...INTERACTIVE GRAPHICS Map: The Planned Barrier Mideast: The Four Sticking Points Map: Mideast Flash Points Israel: A Land Divided...
...DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS Imagine a cross between a microwave oven and a Star Trek phaser: a tight, focused beam of energy that flash-heats its target from a distance. Directed energy beams do not burn flesh, but they do create an unbearably painful burning sensation. The Air Force Research Laboratory has already spent $40 million on a humvee-mounted directed-energy weapon. Expect to see it in the field...
...GUNS Further out on the horizon, the line between weapons development and science fiction becomes perilously thin. Mission Research Corp. of Santa Barbara, Calif., is working on a pulsed energy projectile (PEP) that superheats the surface moisture around a target so rapidly that it literally explodes, producing a bright flash of light and a loud bang. The effect is like a stun grenade, but unlike a grenade the pep travels at nearly the speed of light and can take out a target with pinpoint accuracy. Or picture this: a flashlight-size device, currently in development at HSV Technologies...
...world today, the U.S. is uniquely powerful, with a near monopoly on the ability to project force globally. American power is much in demand. From the Balkans to the border between North and South Korea, American armed forces maintain a degree of stability in places that would otherwise be flash points. But this very ubiquity of American power has bred a natural resentment. The Bush Administration is not entirely paranoid to imagine that American mistakes - like bombing a Chinese embassy in Belgrade or an Afghan wedding party - are more likely to be the source of international condemnation than those made...