Location: The Heritage Foundation's Lehrman Auditorium
In science fiction, futuristic soldiers are often shown wielding
light emitting weapons - Flash Gordon's ray gun, Captain Kirk's
phaser, and Darth Vader's light saber. Today, this imagined future
of science fiction is on the road to reality. 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. They're called "directed-energy weapons" - lasers,
high-powered microwaves, and particle beams - and they signal a
revolution in weaponry, perhaps, more profound than the atomic
bomb.
The first directed-energy (DE) weapons are already being tested,
and their deployment is planned in the very near future. In
The
E-Bomb, author J. Douglas Beason, Ph.D., a leading U.S. expert
in directed-energy research, explains these exotic new weapons in
clear and non-technical prose and answers questions that all
Americans will have about their important development and strategic
significance.
DR. J. DOUGLAS BEASON, Col. (USAF, ret.), a key architect and
leading expert of directed-energy research for the past twenty-six
years, holds a Ph.D. in laser-technology physics. He has served at
the White House, working for the President's Science Advisor in
both the Clinton and Bush administrations. Today he is on the Board
of Directors of the Directed Energy Professional Society, and at
Los Alamos National Laboratory he is Director of Threat Reduction.
Dr. Beason is the author of twelve books, including some popular
fiction techno-thrillers, and over one hundred scholarly papers and
other works. He is a Fellow of the prestigious American Physical
Society.
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J. Douglas Beason, Ph.D.
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Alane Kochems
Policy Analyst, National Security
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