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From: schear@ttidcb.UUCP (Steve Schear)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Human jamming...
Message-ID: <469@ttidcb.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 18:01:54 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  7 18:01:54 1985
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In article <543@decwrl.UUCP> wasser@viking.DEC (John A. Wasser) writes:
>
>> Is it possible to direct radio waves towards a particular
>> location some distance away, in order to affect the behavior
>> of a person at that location? Is any research done on
>> questions like this? I would expect the Soviets would
>> have experimented with this kind of thing ...
>>    -Tom (tedrick@berkeley)
>
>	If you expect the Soviets would do research on using radio
>	against humans, you should also expect that the Americans
>	(you know, US) would do the same research.
>
>	I worked for a company that did a number of military
>	contracts (mostly electronic counter-measures to protect
>	planes from missile attack).  One of my coworkers with
>	Secret clearance mentioned experiments to see if humans
>	could be jammed by radio.  He didn't go as far as saying
>	what the experiments showed but I got the impression that
>	there was no useful effect.
>
>	One sure way of effecting humans at a distance is to fry
>	them with microwaves... either with a big radar or a
>	high power maser.  The costal early warning systems (that
>	track planes hundreds of miles away) are designed to send
>	radar pulses at small private planes only every tenth scan 
>	to keep from cooking the pilot.  Someone at Raytheon was 
>	telling me about a missile control system that would bounce a
>	powerful microwave source off a target to give the missiles
>	something to home in on.  He said that even if the 
>	missiles missed, the pilot would be cooked (probably an
>	exaggeration... but maybe not).
>
>		-John A. Wasser
>
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While attending a well known west coast institute in the early seventies my 
classmates and I did some unsponsored research into just this subject.  Using 
a tunable microwave source we were able to interfere (at relatively low power 
densities) selectively with the central nervous system of mice (and latter 
humans).

We were able to do this by resonating certain activity sites on neurotrans-
mitter molecules rendering them temporarily inoperative.

No long term (one year) side effects were noted (then again we aren't M.D.s)
although several of the mice died (appearently because their ability to breathe
had been interrupted for too long an interval).

Since this research was unsponsored it was never published.  Several of the
team members had thought up some illegal (and perhaps lethal) uses for our
discovery, but to my knowledge it was persued no further.