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From: military@cbnews.ATT.COM (William B. Thacker)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: What Ever Happened To The Soviet Death Ray?
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Date: 11 Apr 89 05:23:22 GMT
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From: sun!portal!cup.portal.com!mmm
I remember several years ago, it must have been at least 5 years ago,
the DoD was saying the Soviets had built a facility to shoot things down
with charged particle beams.  Apparently this facility was pretty big,
DoD claimed it was designed to use the power of an underground nuclear
explosion to create the beams.

This story was on the evening network news at the time.  I remember seeing
artist's conceptions provided by the DoD of what the facility looked like
from the outside and in cross-section.

I was wondering if anything more came of this story.  Has it been confirmed
or refuted?  And what caused that area of damaged tiles on the last shuttle
flight?


[mod.note:  I get this image of a Soviet particle-beam gunner watching a 
Shuttle launch, and, as the countdown reaches "1", shouting, "Pull !" 8-)
-Bill ]