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Today's infrared lasers are only powerful enough to disable aerial targets, but scientists now have the keys to building high-powered laser weaponry that can 'melt' distant targets. When you purchase ...

WASHINGTON — One of the newest weapons in the Pentagon's vast arsenal is a concentrated beam of light, a laser that zaps and burns, delivering destruction by the kilowatt, as if in "Star Wars." Under ...