Free Electron Laser

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Nathan Hodge, Boeing Completes Design of Shipboard Superlaser. Wired, Mar.
18, 2010.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/03/boeing-completes-design-of-shipboard-super-laser/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+(Wired%3A+Index+3+(Top+Stories+2))

My comment: I had a posting dated Feb. 22, 2010 and titled More Information
on Airborne Laser, which identified (i) Northrop Grumman as the corporation
behind the Airborne Laser and a navy test; and (ii) chemical oxygen iodine
laser (COIL) as the workhorse. COIL is classified as chemical laser.

This report talks about Boeing AND Free Electron Laser (FEL).

Chemical laser and FEL are different categories of laser.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser#Gas_lasers

Thus US military is engaged in multiple-prong approach to weaponizing laser.


---------------Separately
美俄即将达成削减战略武器条约. VOA Chinese, Mar. 20, 2010.
http://www1.voanews.com/chinese/news/US/US-RUSSIA-AGREEMENTS-20100319-88702187.html

My comment:
(a) START I
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/START_I
(for STrategic Arms Reduction Treaty; a treaty between US and USSR; signed
on July 31, 1991, five months before the collapse of the Soviet Union, which
delayed entry-into-force of the treaty; expired 5 December 2009, but
currently remains in force indefinitely pending agreement on a successor
treaty)
(b) The replacement treaty and agreement over Iran sanction place pressure
on the remaining holdout, among the five permanent members of UN Security
Council, that is China--on both issues.

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