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

Title: E-Bomb: How America's New Directed Energy Weapons Will Change the Way Future Wars Will Be Fought
Author: Doug Beason
ISBN: 9780306815065
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2006
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Section: History | Military | Weapons
Publisher Description: 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. The E-Bomb author Doug Beason, a leading expert in directed-energy research, describes in clear and jargon-free prose all of these exotic new weapons. As the Los Alamos Monitor said, "Beason has a special vantage for peering over the horizon and relating what the twenty-first century holds in store." "[The E-Bomb] will appeal to readers schooled in Tom Clancy." (Kirkus)