Word: lasered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aide, who is a consultant to a Boston firm now designing a nuclear war game, assured the student "confidentially" that a $200,000 laser bomb recently developed by the military would be accurate enough to "do the job". The student smiled and urged that the Senator vote against the Byrd Amendment so that money now being wasted in Indochina could be spent on more useful military projects. Despite the student's plea. Towers decided to vote for the Byrd Amendment...
...years of active U.S. military presence, it is still impossible to find thirty-three Senators who will refuse to conduct other business until the war is ended. Their constituents may be upset about the cost of steak, but it is hard for them to imagine what $200,000 laser bombs do to Vietnamese. It is equally difficult for Congressmen to imagine...
...Dali has tried to give his work a quasiscientific dimension by toying with such themes as Einstein's theory of relativity and the discovery of the DNA spiral. The latest Nobel laureate to experience his attentions is Dr. Dennis Gabor, the inventor of holography. A holograph, made with laser beams, has the property of accurately reproducing an object in three dimensions. "All artists," proclaims Dali, "have been concerned with three-dimensional reality since the time of Velásquez, and in modern times the analytic Cubism of Picasso tried again to capture the three dimensions of Velásquez...
THESE PRINCIPLES are totally inadequate to deal with the complex role of the scientist--working through the universities and through companies like ADL--in developing the super-sophisticated weaponry now in use in Indochina. "People sniffers," laser- and TV-guided bombs, remote-controlled planes, and computerized bombing patterns were all developed by American scientists, yet the link is rarely direct. The weapons are developed component by component, subcontract by subcontract, so that the scientist rarely creates the entire weapon and almost never receives a government contract stamped "for use in Indochina...
...companies on this map are involved in military contracting--for this war, and for future wars. AVCO, for example, develops the laser technology which is already being used for laser-guided bombs. It's also working on future military uses of lasers, which include a laser "zap gun" for burning or blinding the enemy; guidance systems for missiles; range-finders for tanks; and techniques for defusing incoming ICBM's. The Defense Marketing Survey--the authoritative source on weapons manufacturers--calls it the "space age miracle beam of light," and its space-age potential is being developed right in Everett...