Abstract
With just two particle-beam weapon systems installed on satellites in geosynchronous earth orbit at 40000 km, a country could, theoretically, neutralize ICBMs or submarine-launched ballistic missiles fired from any site in the world. Such 'death ray' weapons, it is reported in a study by four physicists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, could - again theoretically - destroy enemy missiles the moment they climbed out of the earth's atmosphere and entered space.
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