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War at the Speed of Light explores the revolutionary role of directed-energy weapons in warfare and their threat to disrupting the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction.
List of contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1. The Game of Cat and Mouse
1. Tilting the Balance of Terror
2. The Quest for Global Dominance Using Conventional Weapons
3. The Coming Fourth U.S. Offset Strategy
Part 2. Directed-Energy Weapons
4. Laser Weapons
5. Microwave Weapons
6. EMP Weapons
7. Cyberspace Weapons
Part 3. “Shields Up, Mr. Sulu”
8. Directed-Energy Countermeasures
9. Force Fields
Part 4. The Coming New Reality
10. Autonomous Directed-Energy Weapons
11. The Full-Scale Weaponization of Space
12. Not Gambling with the Fate of Humanity
Appendix A: U.S. and Chinese Defense Budgets Adjusted for Purchasing Power Parity and Labor Costs
Appendix B: The Design and Operation of a Laser
Appendix C: Radiation-Hardened Electronics and System Shielding Resources
Appendix D: Articles Describing the Operation of Nonnuclear EMP Devices
Notes
Index
About the author
Louis A. Del Monte is the CEO of Del Monte and Associates and has more than thirty years of experience in physics, technology, and engineering. His technological developments are used by Honeywell, IBM, Samsung, and the U.S. Department of Defense. He is the author of
Nanoweapons: A Growing Threat to Humanity (Potomac, 2017).
Summary
Explores the ever-increasing and revolutionary role of directed-energy weapons in warfare, including laser, microwave, electromagnetic pulse (EMP), and cyberspace weapons.
