Video: Laser Hummer Blasts 50 Bombs -- The Danger Room
Today, when U.S. troops find improvised bombs, they deploy robots to get rid of the weapons, or they call in the bomb squad, which has to handle the explosives by hand. Either way, the process takes hours. And all too often, people get hurt.
But those troops might have a different option, later this decade: frying those bombs with a laser.
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