E-Bomb, The: How America's New Directed Energy Weapons Will Change the Way Future Wars Will Be Fought

"After more than two decades of research, the United States is on the verge of deploying a new generation of weapons that discharge light-wave energy, the same spectrum of energy found in your microwave or in your TV remote control. It's called directed energy - lasers, high-powered microwaves, and particle beams. And it's a revolution in weaponry, perhaps more profound than the atomic bomb. In The E-Bomb, author Doug Beason, a leading expert in directed energy research, describes all of these exotic new weapons in clear and jargon-free prose - and answers the questions we should all be asking about the weapons we'll use to fight tomorrow's wars." - BOOK JACKET