Giant Laser Funding At Risk

Future Giant Laser Threatened by Cuts

From the Article:

"WASHINGTON - A giant laser being built to simulate the explosion of a hydrogen bomb is facing funding cuts in the Senate that supporters say could kill the project after $2.8 billion has been spent on it."

Just for the moment, consider a giant laser that can "simulate the explosion of a hydrogen bomb". I'm merely hypothesizing here, but when I think large array of lasers to achieve fusion, I envision a system of overlapping lasers focused on a single point. Assuming that this has the same effects as a traditional hydrogen bomb, if this project does continue, what we will have achieved is in changing the delivery system of nuclear weaponry. No longer will we need to worry about planes carrying nukes getting shot down and lost, or falling into enemy hands, we just need to locate a point on the globe and nuke away.

With even just 4 lasers out of 192, they have the most powerful laser on the planet. Keep in mind that they've already figured out the technology to ionize a trail so that a laser can remain focused after being fired from a satellite.

How much is needed to keep funding going? 141 million. Are they going to vote to continue funding this? I believe so. I mean, considering that the war in Iraq is well into the trillions, 141 million isn't very much at all...