“This array here at Bach is a laser transmitter.” “And they blasted a satellite with it?” Jeff Pelt asked. “Yes, sir,” Major Gregory answered. “They ‘slagged it down,’ as we say at the lab. They pumped enough energy into it to, well, to melt some of the metal and destroy the solar power cells entirely.” “We can’t do that yet?” the President asked Gregory. “No, sir. We can’t put that much power out the front end.” “How is it that they got ahead of us? We’re putting a lot of money into lasers, aren’t we, General?”
