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>>10760321

>Name something new retard.

4th gen nuclear weapons
directed nuclear weapons
the NIF (designed to support the above)
the YAL-1 (built off the above research)

This is all Bush 2 era stuff. Obama era stuff includes laser beamed rocket launches, laser beamed aircraft propulsion, and laser beamed power in general. Most of it is hyptothetical but NASA did build a single model airplane powered off a directional light, which was good enough as a proof-of-concept. More recently someone successfully built an in-atmosphere ionocraft, also as a model proof-of-concept though.