It's called the electron gun, or simply the "e-gun."So defending the country is considered the ideological opposite of saving lives...?
When it's being developed by a company best-known for its defense work, thoughts of Star Wars and death rays are inevitable.
But this e-gun, which creates electrons and shoots them at high speed toward a target, could just as easily be used to save lives as to defend the country...
And as I asked in "Things to Come," an article on weapons development I wrote for the July 2002 issue of GUNS AND AMMO:
Any bets on whether one of these babies will ever make it to the civilian market?