Popular Mech

Recently reading about the most recent edition of Poular Mechanics! I wanted to know more about what it said; anyways...they were writing about the most largest press in America, and perhaps maybe even the whole world. This machine was stolen from the Germans during WW2, and was supposedly taken from the Rhine River by the Americans. Well that part we know for sure. If it hadn't been for them, then the Russians would've taken that whole thing. It had the remarkable ability to turn relatively large chunks of metal into "toothpaste". A piece of Aluminum could be a cube roughly  four by four feet (or something like that anyways). Then it would be change by the use of an 16,000 tons of pressure into actual parts. Those part would be used for making . If the Russian would've gotten a hold of this machinery, they would then be one step ahead of the game during the cold war, eh? Also, there's this newly developed laser by the US Army which is made to melt stuff from a mile away. Not just any stuff, either. This thing, first of all, is made up of multiple lasers, each giving it more intensity. Oh, and by the way, this thing can melt a hole in a truck engine. No more fun with cars I suppose. That era might very well come to an end, and we will have to deal with school kids getting hands on those freaking things. I sure hope I won't be alive during that time. I wouldn't want to be driving while they point those things everywhere!