[katana]

Once again, Reagan is proven right and a couple decades ahead of his time. This would probably already be operational and fielded if not for eight years of a democrat administration (or twelve years if you count how squeamish Bush I was about pushing Star Wars research - at least that was my impression at the time).

[Centurion2000]

It's interesting ... like World War 2 left to some pretty signifcant tech innovations I think that the US, Japan and other nations like Israel may be on the cusp of leaping ahead by another generation.

The trick will be to stop the chinese from copying and stealing our work.