去年夏天曾预言,必须立即决定是否促进高能激光武器的发展,以及其首项应用可能是在空间,现在看来这个预言将成为事实。上周在议院武装部队委员会作证时,国防部远景研究计划局主任G.H.海尔迈尔(Geoge H.Heilmeier)说“我相信,高能激光器在空间的应用是一件与Sputnik(苏联人造地球卫星)意义相同的事件——这项技术 Last summer it had been predicted that an immediate decision on whether to promote the development of high-energy laser weapons and its first application might be in space, it now appears that this prediction will become a reality. Last week, when testifying at the House Armed Services Committee, Geoge H. Heilmeier, director of the Department of Defense’s Vision Research Program, said: ”I believe the use of high-energy lasers in space is a matter of cooperation with Sputnik (the soviet artificial earth satellite) The same meaning of the incident - the technology