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Home » Bizarro » Moscow’s Remote-​​Controlled Heart Attacks

Moscow’s Remote-​​Controlled Heart Attacks

This is the sec­ond of David Hambling’s two-​​part series on plasma and elec­tro­mag­netic weapons. Check out part one here.
heart-attack-picture.gifThe American mil­i­tary may want to attack the ner­vous sys­tem, with pain rays and laser plasma pulses. But they’re not the only ones. The Russians have long stud­ied such sys­tems, too — includ­ing one weapon that could, in the­ory, remotely trig­ger heart attacks.
In 2003, at the 2nd European Symposium on Non-​​Lethal Weapons, Anatoly Korolev and his col­leagues from Moscow State University pre­sented a paper with the snappy title “Bioelectrodynamic Criterion of the NLW Effectiveness Estimation and the Interaction mech­a­nisms of the mul­ti­layer Skin Tissues with elec­tro­mag­netic Radiation.” This is a study of how radio-​​frequency weapons — like the American Active Denial System — affect the skin. After wad­ing through a mass of tech­ni­cal data show­ing how com­plex the inter­ac­tions are we reach the punch line:

The sen­sa­tions modal­ity (prick­ing, touch, pres­sure, goose­flesh, touch, burn­ing pain etc) depends on the field para­me­ters and indi­vid­ual con­crete human being fac­tors. As a mat­ter of fact, we can really choose the non-​​lethal bioeffect. 

The effects include sen­sa­tions sim­i­lar to those dis­cussed pre­vi­ously, and more besides. The paper dis­cusses effects on cell mem­branes and affect­ing the bodys nor­mal func­tion, includ­ing “infor­ma­tion trans­fer to the organs of con­trol.“
At the same con­fer­ence, V Makukhin of the Trymas Engineering Center in Moscow described “Electronic equip­ment for com­plex influ­ence on bio­log­i­cal objects.” And when he says “bio­log­i­cal objects,” he means you and me.
His lab­o­ra­tory appa­ra­tus uses a mod­u­lated beam of radio waves to pro­duce what he terms “dis­or­der of auto­nomic ner­vous sys­tem,” put for­ward as a pos­si­ble non-​​lethal weapon. Makhunin notes that there is no gen­eral agree­ment on how EM waves dis­rupt nerves — he men­tions ion chan­nels sim­i­lar to those in the plasma paper — but he cer­tainly seems to be see­ing the same effects as American researchers.
But it need not be a non-​​lethal weapon. Makhunin also men­tions the effects of “change of elec­tro­car­dio­gram” and what he calls “func­tion break of heart mus­cle.“
The vul­ner­a­bil­ity of the heart to elec­tri­cal stim­u­la­tion (includ­ing that pro­duced by EM waves) is well doc­u­mented. A lethal device would inter­fere with the elec­tri­cal poten­tials that keep the cham­bers of the heart syn­chro­nized, pro­duc­ing fib­ril­la­tion and rapid death. A death ray doesnt need to be a truck-​​sized laser that reduces the tar­get to smok­ing heap; a small device that stops the heart will do the job.
Little has been openly pub­lished in this area in the pub­lic domain, but this may be the tip of the ice­berg. We are likely to be hear­ing more in future — espe­cially if the Russians man­age to find fund­ing.
I dont think we need tin­foil hats just yet. But a layer of con­duct­ing mesh built into body armor might save a lot of heartache in years to come.

(If you want more, theres a whole chap­ter on dif­fer­ent non-​​lethal directed energy weapons and where the tech­nol­ogy might lead in my book Weapons Grade. )

– David Hambling

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  1. pedestrian says:
    February 14, 2006 at 10:03 am

    Well, is every­one ready to arm with tin hats after news of weather con­trol, weapons cre­at­ing illu­sions, and Russia try­ing to con­trol a pace maker? Who is sup­ply­ing these strange news from the dark? Fox Mulder?

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  2. pedestrian says:
    February 14, 2006 at 10:07 am

    What’s going to be posted next? Aliens from other galaxy pro­vid­ing anti-​​gravity UFOs to the DARPA? Underground aliens sup­port­ing the Iraqi ter­ror­ists with net­works of tunnels?

    Reply
  3. Wembley says:
    February 14, 2006 at 12:13 pm

    I sud­denly won­dered “So why isn’t there a lethal ver­sion of the Taser ™ then?“
    And then I thought, maybe a one-​​shot hand­gun with a twenty-​​foot range might not be that awe­some.
    Doing it from a mile away with a PEP would be more like it though.

    Reply
  4. The Cenobyte says:
    February 14, 2006 at 1:08 pm

    No one should be suprised here. All of these ideas and ones that you can’t even imag­ine are com­ing down the pipe in the next few years and the rate at which these things are pro­duced and dis­cov­ered will only increase. Currently we are mostly build­ing with human knowl­edge and vision but as com­put­ers take over these jobs and become faster and faster (by 2030 CPUs with as much pro­cess­ing power as every human on the planet but together should cost about $1 each).
    All of this will see very quaint in the next 20 years or so. So get ready for the cyber­punk dark future… (I mean did you see that guy with face armor on?)

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  5. C-Low says:
    February 14, 2006 at 1:27 pm

    This may sound Alien sci-​​fi but todays ideas are tomor­rows real­i­ties. There are a lot of crazy ideas like mag­netic fields dis­rupt­ing brain waves, dif­fer­ent eltro waves caus­ing reac­tions in the brain and such.
    I remem­ber when peo­ple were talk­ing crazi­ness like WI FI or send­ing a laser beam down a wire for Broadband at a rea­son­able price. For that mat­ter GPS bombs. A plane that could cruise at super­sonic speeds. People at Langley run­ning hunter killer mis­sions on the other side of the world.
    I dont really under­stand how plasma could react with the ner­vous cen­ter the EMP part maybe. But it would be one hell of a weapon.
    For the Russians part I guess now we know what hap­pened to Yesltin. Sarcasm
    The only limit to Human poten­tial is our abil­ity to con­ceive the pos­si­bil­i­ties and do it.
    Great story by the way awe­some work.

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  6. Arw says:
    February 15, 2006 at 5:16 am

    One can’t help but won­der: Who will these be used against? It’d make a WTO con­fer­ence nice and quiet if every­one out­side was par­a­lyzed.
    Let alone a black mar­ket. Crips vs. Bloods would take on truly geno­ci­dal new level if they were armed with heart-​​attack guns and nervous-​​system destroy­ing weapons.
    I would sug­gest get­ting down on your knees and pray­ing this sort of thing never sees the light of day.

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  7. Alex D says:
    February 15, 2006 at 1:13 pm

    While tak­ing an ECE course at the U of I cham­paign my prof, told us in con­fi­dence that 20 years ago, he was doing amer­i­can funded research, to deter­mine the size of an antena needed to affect the human heart. He of course imag­ined med­ical uses for such a device. The research showed the antena would need to be unrea­son­able large, and it was then he learned the resaerch was for pos­si­ble weapons man­u­fac­ture. I don’t doubt smaller designs are possible…

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  8. Innocent Target says:
    February 19, 2006 at 1:58 pm

    There is com­pelling, chill­ing evi­dence this bio affec­tive elec­tronic tech­nol­ogy is in the hands of orga­nized crime and hate groups and it is being used to gain con­trol of busi­nesses and harass inno­cent Americans.
    See http://​www​.ElectronicElephants​.com for details. We all need to con­tact our state ACLUs and Congress ton get them to declas­sify this tech­nol­ogy so that we can pro­tect our­selves!
    An Innocent American Target

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  9. max says:
    February 25, 2006 at 6:51 pm

    This has, and is, already being used against cit­i­zens. I myself have been har­rassed using these weapons and found myself in the emer­gency room 3 weeks ago. I sim­ply am a life­long amer­i­can who has been inves­ti­gat­ing the lies of the press and govt. I sup­pose that makes me a ‘ter­ror­ist’ in these days where peo­ple who read the wrong books or wear the wrong t-​​shirts are detained and interrogated.

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  10. aj says:
    August 9, 2006 at 4:09 pm

    this tech is surely already being used and prob­a­bly has been for years. one esti­mate is that the mil­i­tary has 40 years to every one of ours when it comes to hi tech­nol­ogy.
    how many rel­a­tively healthy peo­ple that are con­sid­ered “sub­ver­sive” have mys­te­ri­ously died of heart attacks in the past. how about brain aneurisms?

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  11. Anatolij says:
    February 24, 2007 at 12:23 pm

    STOP BIO-​​PSYCHOTRONIC WEAPONS TORTURE
    BRAINMIND CONTROLANNIHILATION SLAVERY ASSASSINATION!!!
    Dear Sir, Madam, :
    Civil EFFECTS: TORTURE

    Reply
  12. Gerry Duffett says:
    May 14, 2007 at 6:55 pm

    Sonoma University
    Electromagnetic Weapons
    Radiowaves As Weapons
    This report makes ref­er­ences to the U.S. Intelligence Community or the U.S. Government.
    I don’t think thats the “big” prob­lem.
    Looks like this is some type of “world­wide” prob­lem.
    I am now research­ing laws in Canada.
    “Project Censored“
    Microwave Weapons
    Electronic Harassment
    A Study of the History of US Intelligence Community Human Rights Violations and Continuing Research in “Electromagnetic Weapons.“
    Located here :
    http://​www​.pro​ject​cen​sored​.org
    http://​www​.pro​ject​cen​sored​.org/​n​e​w​s​f​l​a​s​h​/​E​l​e​c​t​r​o​m​e​g​n​a​t​i​c​W​e​a​p​o​n​s​.​pdf
    “Print out” .pdf file
    Completed December 2006
    Sonoma State University
    Project Censored
    Media Freedom Foundation
    Peter Philips
    Lew Brown
    Bridget Thorton
    ————————–
    Gerry Duffett
    gerryduffett4​7​@​yahoo.​com
    gerryduffett@​fastmail.​ca
    http://​ger​ry​duf​fett​.proboard​s54​.com/​i​n​d​e​x​.​c​g​i​?​b​o​a​r​d​=​g​e​n​e​ral
    http://​www​.goliath​boards​.com/​u​s​e​r​s​5​/​g​e​r​r​y​d​u​f​f​e​t​t​/​i​n​d​e​x​.​cgi

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  13. Anatolij says:
    August 9, 2007 at 5:39 am

    STOP BIO-​​PSYCHOTRONIC WEAPONS TORTURE BRAINMIND/​BODY CONTROLANNIHILATION ORGANIZED STALKING/​TERROR SLAVERY ASSASSINATION!!!
    Dear Sir, Madam, :
    A Message For You, April 09, 2000, Part 3: MICROWAVE MIND CONTROL: MODERN TORTURE AND CONTROL MECHANISMS ELIMINATING HUMAN RIGHTSAND PRIVACY, by Dr. Rauni Leena Kilde, MD, October 23, 1999:
    http://​www​.prophe​cies​.org/​M​e​s​s​a​g​e​s​/​a​p​r​i​l​0​9​c​.​htm
    Christians Against Mental Slavery:
    http://​www​.slav​ery​.org​.uk/​n​e​w​s​.​htm
    Psychotronic Mind ControlANNIHILATION Weapons:
    http://​free​dom​fchs​.com/​f​f​c​h​s​m​e​s​s​a​g​e​s​/​v​i​e​w​t​o​p​i​c​.​p​h​p​?​t​=​563
    http://​bel​la​ciao​.org/​e​n​/​a​r​t​i​c​l​e​.​p​h​p​3​?​i​d​_​a​r​t​i​c​l​e​=​6​205
    http://​www​.volk​skrant​blog​.nl/​b​l​o​g​/​5​286
    http://​mind​jus​tice​.org/​i​n​d​e​x​.​htm
    http://​www​.raven1​.net/​r​a​v​i​n​d​e​x​.​htm
    Resources /​ Other Sites :
    http://​www​.mind​con​trol​fo​rums​.com/​r​e​s​r​c​-​h​m​.​htm
    Yours sincerely.

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  14. Tyann Pleshette Moore says:
    June 27, 2008 at 9:49 am

    My EIN num­ber is located at UNGM Registration #148935. I wish peo­ple peo­ple why they need their drug addic­tive sub­stances in their mind and phys­i­cal bod­ies permanently.because it could be neg­a­tive mind con­trol. I wish the abusers would not abuse drugs or try to hen­der our goals within a 5 mile radius of me phys­i­cally and of my offspring/progeny’s phys­i­cal loca­tion. Best regards, Tyann Pleshette Moore

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  15. -=HW=- says:
    August 17, 2008 at 10:03 am

    Why are lots of you Americans so afraid of RC Heart Attacks and other techy stuff? If some­body just gets between the USA and some inter­est, he is liq­ui­dated. It doesn’t mat­ter to you in what way — shot down when every­thing looks like a “com­mon crime” or rather killed via dethray. Even dozens of years ago the very CIA pos­sessed poi­sons, mak­ing every­thing look like a sud­den heart attack or smth equal with­out any piece of tech­nol­ogy. So noth­ing to worry about, those marked for deth will meet their fate ^_^

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  16. Gerry Duffett says:
    June 23, 2009 at 9:17 am

    Dec 15 2006
    Microwave Sickness /​ Deadly Electronic Weapons /​ Canada
    Hello
    When I worked in the diesel gen­er­a­tor busi­ness,
    I worked with a lot of com­mu­ni­ca­tions com­pa­nies all across Canada.
    Bell Canada was a big one I did a lot of work with.
    They have “standby diesel gen­er­a­tors” at their cen­tral offices and all their repeater sta­tions.
    A lot of “national secu­rity” con­cerns within these sys­tems.
    People within these sys­tems have more than enough resources to make you “sick” if you .…..“step on the wrong toes.“
    Lots of surl­pus “microwave gen­er­a­tors.” and “radio equip­ment.“
    All with “no foren­sic evi­dence.“
    It just takes one “idiot” to put some­thing together who does not like you.
    There may be a union /​ non union theme to my prob­lems.
    I worked at a non union com­pany, Harper Detroit Diesel.
    I had no idea about “radio waves as weapons” until 2005,
    .…..8 years after I ini­tially got sick
    I started my research project in January 2004 on the inter­net with the key­words “con­struc­tive dis­missal“
    in rela­tion to my own prob­lems at Harper Detroit Diesel.
    I am not sure about .…..“microwave mind con­trol”,
    seems to be a lot of arti­cles on the inter­net about this topic.
    It does look like more and more peo­ple world wide are look­ing at
    .…..“radio waves as weapons”.
    I think maybe thats because there is now so much “radio equipment“around the world with the advance­ments in “com­mu­ni­ca­tions.“
    The prob­lems with all these types of sys­tems is the tech­nol­ogy falls into the wrong hands.
    Some real hor­ror sto­ries from peo­ple world­wide about this topic on the inter­net.
    What an eye opener !
    Gerry Duffett
    Toronto /​ Ontario /​ Canada
    duffett5​2​@​yahoo.​com,
    gerryduffett@​fastmail.​ca,
    http://​ger​ry​duf​fett​.proboard​s54​.com/​i​n​d​e​x​.​c​g​i​?​b​o​a​r​d​=​g​e​n​e​ral

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  17. Mindcon says:
    August 18, 2009 at 5:21 am

    STOP BIO-​​ELECTRONICE/​PSYCHOTRONIC TORTURE BRAINMIND/​BODY CONTROL/​ANNIHILATION ORGANIZED STALKING/​TERROR SLAVERY ASSASSINATION WEAPONS!!!
    BIOEFFECTS: That’s Impossible
    Dear @Sir, @Madam,
    Cheryl Welsh, New cable TV pro­gram on the mind con­trol issue, U.S. secrecy meth­ods for mind con­trol weapons have fooled almost every­one, mind​jus​tice​.org, August 11, 2009, .
    Quote: I was inter­viewed for the Mind Control pro­gram and pre­sented the argu­ment that advanced mind con­trol weapons are already devel­oped. No one has been able to estab­lish enough evi­dence to prove either that there are secret advanced gov­ern­ment mind con­trol weapons, or that there are not. Mind con­trol weapons are an impor­tant pub­lic con­cern. The experts say it

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