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Space lasers work and are a great way to destroy other sattelites. His SDI program was way crazier though, X-ray lasers fueled by shaped charge nukes to shoot down ICBMs.
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Still more reasonable than Project Pluto. I can’t believe how far we got in that particular mistake.
ETA the x-ray lasers were only a part of it. They were throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what stuck.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative
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