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On the recordApril 11, 2016
I think that directed energy has suffered from being--from always being just 25 years off. I think we're now not 25 years off.
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Martin Heinrich
Democratic · New Mexico

Editor's note · Context

Heinrich expresses optimism about the near-term applications of directed energy technology.

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