1. That is the major conclusion of a very pessimistic study of laser weapons: Michael Callaham and Kosta Tsipis, High-Energy Laser Weapons: A Technical Assessment (Program in Science and Technology for International Affairs, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 1980).
2. Richard E. Fitts, ed, The Strategy of Electromagnetic Conflict (Peninsula Press, Los Altos, California, 1980), p. 39.
3. Figures taken from a chart in William L. Wolfe and George J. Zissis, eds, The Infrared Handbook (Office of Naval Research, Washington, D.C., 1978), pp. 7–81.
4. A. I. Braunstein and M. Braunstein, Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology
8, 412 (1971)
5. cited in W. W. Duley, CO2
Lasers Effects & Applications (Academic Press, New York, 1976), p. 107.