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APS Releases Report on Directed‐Energy Weapons

MAY 01, 1987

During the APS spring meeting in Crystal City, Virginia, late last month, the APS Council released the long‐awaited report of the Study Group on the Science and Technology of Directed Energy Weapons. APS Executive Secretary William W. Havens Jr remarked, “It may be the most important APS study ever done.”

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