Hi,
I stumbled upon this:
https://lasers.llnl.gov/
This is part of
https://www.llnl.gov/ is probably the facility where 'Henry Deacon' works/worked.
Now people are concerned about the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) but the NIF seems to be ready in 2009 also
to see if they can produce a star like ignition !
I wonder what happens if this goes wrong ... in California ...
Cheers