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

Beason, Doug

ISBN 10: 0306814021 / ISBN 13: 9780306814020

Published by Da Capo Press, 2005

Seller Inventory # mon0000415024

Synopsis:

A timely book that explains the next revolution in military weapons - directed-energy weapons - and how tomorrow's wars will be fought. In science fiction, futuristic soldiers are often shown wielding light emitting weapons - Flash Gordon used a ray gun, Captain Kirk carried a phaser, and Darth Vader brandished a light saber. But, today, the imagined future of science fiction is soon to be a 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 being tested right now, and their deployment is planned in the very near future. In "The E-Bomb", author J Douglas Beason, a leading US expert in directed-energy research, will explain in clear and non-technical prose, these exotic new weapons, and answers the questions that we'll all want answered: What is Directed Energy? How do DE weapons work? What can these DE weapons do? And are these weapons safe to use? As the once-imagined weapons of the future begin to appear on today's battlefield's, "The E-Bomb" will help explain how and why the future is now.

About the Author: 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 PhD 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.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The E-Bomb: How America's New Directed ...
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Publication Date: 2005
Binding: hardcover
Condition: Good