(1) Dan Vergano, 'Star Wars' Becoming Real; Military Is on the Edge of Using
Laser Weapons. USA Today, May 14, 2010 (title in the print; front page). http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2010-05-14-1Adeathray14_CV_N.htm?csp=hf
My comment:
(a) Regarding "the 50th anniversary of the [Laser] technology," see Laser http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser
("in 1950, Alfred Kastler (Nobel Prize for Physics 1966) proposed the method
of optical pumping, experimentally confirmed, two years later, by Brossel,