The whole story of laser weapons with a focus on its many interesting characters and sometimes bizarre schemes The lasera milestone invention of the midtwentieth centuryquickly captured the imagination of the Pentagon as the key to the ultimate weapon. Veteran science writer Jeff Hecht tells the inside story of the adventures and misadventures of scientists and military strategists as they exerted Herculean though often futile efforts to adapt the laser for military uses. From the 1950s sci