1. Important announcement

   Announcement Pages: 3 - 3

2. Applications of fusion technology to strategic defense

   • Stephen O. Dean

   Introduction Pages: 5 - 5

3. The strategic defense initiative: start of a new era in national defense

   • George A. Keyworth II

   OriginalPaper Pages: 7 - 11

4. The issues faced by the strategic defense initiative

   • Gerold Yonas

   OriginalPaper Pages: 13 - 16

5. Accelerators for heavy-ion fusion

   • Roger Bangerter

   OriginalPaper Pages: 17 - 21

6. RF accelerators for fusion and strategic defense

   • R. A. Jameson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 23 - 31

7. Pulsed power, ICF, and SDI

   • J. Pace VanDevender

   OriginalPaper Pages: 33 - 39

8. Chemical lasers

   • Joseph Miller

   OriginalPaper Pages: 41 - 50

9. KrF lasers for fusion: Issues and promises

   • Robert E. Center

   OriginalPaper Pages: 51 - 56

10. Damage resistance of coated optics

    • Willard R. Wadt

    OriginalPaper Pages: 57 - 63

11. Liquid crystal devices for laser systems

    • Stephen D. Jacobs

    OriginalPaper Pages: 65 - 75

12. Fusion neutral-particle beam research and its contribution to SDI programs

    • H. H. Haselton

    OriginalPaper Pages: 77 - 83

13. Induction LINACS and free electron laser amplifiers

    • Richard J. Briggs

    OriginalPaper Pages: 85 - 95