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Military Mulls Use of 'Star Trek' Weapons (Wow! - And this story is 7 months old)
• By Brian Bergstein - Associated PressARLINGTON, Va. (AP) -- For years, the U.S. military has explored a new kind of firepower that is instantaneous, precise and virtually inexhaustible: beams of electromagnetic energy. "Directed-energy'' pulses can be throttled up or down