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The Soviets are about even with the U.S. in the development of high-energy lasers (HELS) and clearly ahead in an even more lethal offshoot, charged particle beams (CPBs). Instead of photons, which have no mass, CPB devices shoot bursts of relatively weighty subatomic bullets, such as electrons (particles carrying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Technology to Transform War | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

American HELS are coming. In about two years the Navy is scheduled to test its Sea Lite laser system: generating more than two megawatts of power, enough to meet the electrical needs of a town of 7,500, Sea Lite is supposed to be capable of knocking out numbers of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Technology to Transform War | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

Research on particle beam weapons is under way at California's Lawrence Livermore Laboratory and at Los Alamos. There, scientists are dealing with a third kind of ray known as a neutral-particle beam. It is made up of particles that carry no electrical charge, such as neutral hydrogen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Technology to Transform War | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

He picked his teeth with a pine tree. He spat ponds of tobacco juice. Tussling with his foreman, Hels Helsen, he trampled down an oldtime plateau until all that was left were the black hills of South Dakota.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rolleo | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

Mr. Stevens who, in real life, is known as Appanoose Jim to his fellow bullies of Idaho hard-rock camps and Oregon loggeries, has been at pains to set down these important American chronicles in their pristine vernacular and without any improvements of his own. When he states that Babe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Big Boy | 4/20/1925 | See Source »

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