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...President's new defensive concept. Admitting "the American people are not likely to enthusiastically support the placement of nuclear weapons in space," he urged the assembled scientists to start thinking instead about ways to get their share of the huge research-and-development money involved in putting laser beams in space. In Los Alamos, weapons are bread and butter...
...acquisitions today-a helium-neon laser, a flow meter, some bookends, a Rolodex, a light table, a 3-ft.-tall thermos for liquid nitrogen, a massive pneumatically operated vacuum valve-will go into storage with the rest, waiting for a buyer. "I've got $20 million-that's Government cost, not mine-worth of stuff," says Grothus. "I'm looking for someone to sell it to for 10? on the dollar. I'm trying to sell it to the People's Republic of China. It's usable. It would fill the technical and scientific...
...explained, for example, that even if America could develop a laser weapon to attack missiles, the Soviets could counter by developing a protective shield--illustrating what he described as "a development that could only further the arms race...
Perhaps the most important attribute of the cruise missile which few consider may be its virtual invulnerability to Anti Ballistic Missiles (ABMs) and laser defense weapons. Because cruise missiles stay low and inside the atmosphere. ABMs are worthless, for they can only target ICBMs. Moreover, laser beams dissipate too easily while tracking cruise missiles inside the atmosphere...
...idea is certainly appealing. All of the murderous megatonnage of those fearsome intercontinental ballistic missiles would be rendered useless. The Soviet Union launches a surprise nuclear attack? Zap! U.S. laser beams from outer space blast the enemy booster rockets out of Soviet skies before they can dispatch their multiple warheads on long lethal flights...