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Home » Less-lethal » US Bioelectromagnetic Weapons Research

US Bioelectromagnetic Weapons Research

Could new weapons stun or par­a­lyze with a beam of radio energy? I have dis­cussed pro­pos­als for bio­elec­tro­mag­netic wepaonry in DefenceTech before, here and here, but for the first time details are emerg­ing of Air Force-​​sponsored work in this field.
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I have a piece in ther TechWatch sec­tion of this months Popular Mechanics mag­a­zine explor­ing a new non­lethal pro­gram. In addi­tion to the well-​​known Active Denial System (ADS) — which amounts to a mobile microwave oven — basic research has started on some­thing poten­tially far more effec­tive and with much wider impli­ca­tions.
This report, enti­tled “Interdisciplinary research project to explore the poten­tial for devel­op­ing non– lethal weapons based on radiofrequency/​microwave bio­ef­fects” — states their goal:

Our research is to lay the foun­da­tion for devel­op­ing non-​​lethal stunning/​immobilizing weaponry based on radiofre­quency (RF)/
microwave(MW) radi­a­tion by iden­ti­fy­ing RF/​MW para­me­ters poten­tially capa­ble of selec­tively alter­ing exo­cy­to­sis, the process under­ly­ing neu­ro­trans­mit­ter release and hence ner­vous sys­tem functioning.

The ADS works purely by heat­ing skin a sim­ple ther­mal effect. According to the Air Force, in health terms it’s exactly the same effect you’d get from heat­ing with radi­a­tor or hot water or stand­ing by a fire, and it is this heat­ing that pro­duces the ‘repel’ effect on its tar­gets. As far as we know, the ADS does not have any phys­i­cal effects other than straight­for­ward ther­mal ones. But the new project is con­cen­trat­ing on the non-​​thermal effects cre­ated by longer-​​wavelength radi­a­tion, look­ing at how microwaves can affect the ner­ous sys­tem.
This area has already seen a lot of debate. Mobile phones and their trans­mit­ter tow­ers use microwaves, and it is hotly con­tested whether the microwave radi­a­tion has any effect on the human body other than sim­ple heat­ing.
The researchers at the University of Nevada have con­cluded that non-​​thermal effects of RF do exist and may be har­nessed. In an abstract here (on page 317)
a study of Non-​​Thermal effects of RF Radiation on Exocytosis — states The effects of RF expo­sure on cat­e­cholamine release that have been observed to date can­not be explained by an increase in tem­per­a­ture.
And theres more. Other work by the same team, is described here

It will also sup­port a DEPSCoR– funded pro­gram that extends those stud­ies to include microwave fre­quen­cies and to explore the effect of pulsed and CW RE/​microwave expo­sure on skele­tal mus­cle contractility

The sug­ges­tion is that a cor­rectly tuned beam of microwaves (pos­si­bly pulsed or mod­u­lated) would be able to interef­ere with skele­tal mus­cles. This might ulti­mately give a means of pro­duc­ing the same sort of non-​​lethal effects as a Taser — but poten­tially from much greater range and over a wide area.
So far, the work has been entirely on in vitro cell sam­ples in the lab­o­ra­tory, and only mod­est alter­ations in cell func­tion have been pro­duced. This is a very long way from being able to actu­ally influ­ence a liv­ing crea­ture. Any sug­ges­tion that this sort of weapon has already been fielded by the US should be treated with skep­ti­cism.
The researchers are keen to point out that there could be a vari­ety of non-​​military appli­ca­tions too, such as new types of ther­a­peu­tic tool for non-​​invasively treat­ing con­di­tions like chronic pain.
Everything is in very early stages in the US pro­gram. But, as I men­tioned a while back, the Russians have been look­ing at this tech­nol­ogy for years. Dr. Vitaly N. Makukhin of the Trymas Center in Moscow has pub­lished papers on “Electronic equip­ment for com­plex influ­ence on bio­log­i­cal objects” which he claims can pro­duce effects includ­ing dis­or­der of the auto­nomic ner­vous sys­tem. Few peo­ple have taken him seri­ously in the West before. Now that the same sort of effects are being con­firmed in US labs, per­haps we will start tak­ing more of an inter­est in what this type of weapon may be able to do.
Neil Davison of the Center for Conflict Resolution has already ques­tioned “whether it is in any way accept­able to develop bio­elec­tro­mag­netic weapons that could have an inca­pac­i­tat­ing and sup­press­ing effect on peo­ple by manip­u­lat­ing their ner­vous sys­tem or their mus­cles“
As with Tasers and the ADS, the eth­i­cal issues around this one are liable to become the focus for some very lively debate.
– David Hambling

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  1. John Doe says:
    November 27, 2006 at 10:17 am

    In the­ory This is very prob­a­ble. Reason, your body and brain process sig­nals through elec­tri­cal means the secret is find­ing the cor­rect fre­quency as well as why the body might repel a cer­tain fre­quency which would have dras­tic effects. Example Is it the stuc­ture of cells which cre­ate a bar­rier is it a cer­tain pro­tien that insu­lates it etc. Just as lead would repel microwaves. I don’t think it would be dif­fi­cult to cre­ate such a device.

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  2. David Hambling says:
    November 27, 2006 at 3:40 pm

    It’s not really so sim­ple — if it was just a mat­ter of find­ing the right fre­quency then we would have had such weapons a long time ago. It’s a com­bi­na­tion of fre­quency, inten­sity, wave­form, dura­tion and pos­si­bly other fac­tors which pro­duces effects, and these are very lit­tle under­stood so far.
    However, if the Nevada team are cor­rect than there are indi­ca­tions that we may be able to uti­lize effec­tively them in future.

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  3. Beth says:
    November 28, 2006 at 1:34 pm

    Theinformation reported is absolutely cor­rect. As humans, we are self-​​contained elec­tri­cal sys­tems. That is how our under­ly­ing infra­struc­ture is designed. As such, we are also sub­ject to that which inter­feres with this sys­tem or enhances this sys­tem. Our brains sit in a con­duc­tive solu­tion and the neu­rons have a thresh­old that must be reached before fir­ing. External sources can and do over­ride inter­nal man­age­ment along these lines. What has been accom­plished with wires pre­vi­ously can now be accom­plished with­out wires now. Wireless is radiofre­quency. Now that sci­ence has been able to har­ness and focus pre­vi­ously fre energy, directed energy has been able to be “weaponized.” Mofifications of the same energy is used for dif­fer­ent pur­poses in the mil­i­tary sec­tor, the med­ical sec­tor, and the con­sumer sec­tor. This is core tech­nol­ogy for the 21st cen­tury and has in fact been devel­oped far beyond even what has been described here. Our world has changed whether it is real­ized or not because power to con­trol another’s phys­i­o­log­i­cal and pyscho­log­i­cal state has been already achieved. People need to be aware of this.

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  4. Paco says:
    December 1, 2006 at 6:46 pm

    On the other hand, one could wear full body metal­lic link out­fit (Faraday Cage), and ren­der the weapon use­less. Just like in house­hold microwaves, the front door always has that metal­lic screen.

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  5. N. R. Glenn says:
    December 2, 2006 at 5:05 pm

    Shades of Star Trek! Set your phasers on ‘stun’, men!

    Reply
  6. Light says:
    December 3, 2006 at 10:19 am

    The Fusion Energy Foundation released infor­ma­tion they col­lected after Russian researchers asked American researchers what Americans know about Radio Frequency Weapons. This was over 20 years ago. LAmerica had inves­ti­gated such con­cepts but appar­ently dropped it. The Germans in WWII seem­i­ningly exper­i­mented with ultra power sound weapons. Lately American have pre­sented a mas­sive sound energy device to inca­pac­i­tate crowds at a dis­tance. But Radio Frequency Weapons are fairly new to us. It is esti­mated that a 50 thou­sand watt trans­mit­ter, like the size you could carry in a large tr4uck, could gen­er­ate suf­fi­cient results to inca­paci­itate an entire town. The Russian efforts how­ever, seemed to be geared, not to inca­pac­i­tate, but to imme­di­ately kill the tar­get pop­u­la­tion buy pre­vent­ing brain sig­nals from reach­ing the rest of the body.

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  7. Target at Electronic Elephants dot com says:
    January 21, 2007 at 10:43 pm

    Raytheon

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  8. Anatolij says:
    January 27, 2007 at 1:34 pm

    STOP BIO-​​PSYCHOTRONIC WEAPONS TORTURE BRAINMIND CONTROL SLAVERY
    ASSASSINATION!!!
    Dear Sir/​Madam,
    Dear Sir, Madam, :

    Reply
  9. Gerry Duffett says:
    May 16, 2007 at 7:14 am

    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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  10. Anatolij says:
    August 9, 2007 at 5:37 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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  11. when I was a kid says:
    September 27, 2007 at 12:14 am

    As a teenager my step dad was in charge of bas­ing the mx missle whille work­ing at Norton AFB in S. California as a Lt.Col. in the US Airforce. He used to brag, when he was drunk at night and rag­ing away, about var­i­ous aspects of his pro­gram “I can put a missle through a win­dow in the Kremlin” ect. He spoke at length about using a train based missle launch sys­tem that was pro­tected by a “microwave trans­mit­ter” that was a pod that popped up on the train if a ” bunch of Greenpeace peo­ple” dis­cov­ered the trains where­abouts. He claimed it would dis­ori­en­tate if cer­tain dis­tance per­am­e­ters were breached, cause auto defe­ca­tion if pro­tes­tors drew closer and even death if they got with­ing a cer­tain dis­tance. “In vino veritas”

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  12. k.c. ramnaik says:
    January 8, 2008 at 7:33 am

    satel­lite based min­dread­ing device complaint.….…..i know 2 per­sons who are using those device…refer http://​www​.min​dread​ingde​vi​cein​dia​.com

    Reply
  13. Requiem Lant says:
    August 6, 2008 at 3:43 am

    In order to play the Requiem, I bought much Requiem Lant, it spend me much money.

    Reply
  14. Russell Hall says:
    December 8, 2008 at 11:34 pm

    Dear Friend– Hello– My name is Russell C Hall and I am the vic­tim of an ongo­ing harass­ment. Several years ago I dis­cov­ered that my life had been touched by a type con­spir­acy– one of a GOVERNMENT/​RELIGIOUS/​MAFIA/​ nature. You see I was drugged while on vaca­tion and some devices were implanted were in my body — POLICE REPORT ON FILE! While con­scious, I was unable to react as a small hole was drilled into my skull and a type of

    Reply
  15. R Hall says:
    December 8, 2008 at 11:35 pm

    Dear Friend– Hello– My name is Russell C Hall and I am the vic­tim of an ongo­ing harass­ment. Several years ago I dis­cov­ered that my life had been touched by a type con­spir­acy– one of a GOVERNMENT/​RELIGIOUS/​MAFIA/​ nature. You see I was drugged while on vaca­tion and some devices were implanted were in my body — POLICE REPORT ON FILE! While con­scious, I was unable to react as a small hole was drilled into my skull and a type of

    Reply

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