For every weapon there is a counter weapon!

[I well recall this (subject heading) aphorism from my military training days. I wonder what fun a terrorist might have with one of these toys -- or with a good mirror system? And so it goes with the "military-industrial complex" -- so named in Eisenhower's final cautionary speech. What next, I wonder? Ed Kent]

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* US military unveils heat-ray gun *
The US military unveils a "revolutionary" heat-ray gun to repel enemies or disperse hostile crowds.
Full story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/world/americas/6297149.stm
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