Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!wasser@viking.DEC (John A. Wasser) From: wasser@viking.DEC (John A. Wasser) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Human jamming... Message-ID: <543@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 13:34:25 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.543 Posted: Mon Sep 23 13:34:25 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 25-Sep-85 12:46:27 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 38 > 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 Work address: ARPAnet: WASSER%VIKING.DEC@decwrl.ARPA Usenet: {allegra,Shasta,decvax}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-viking!wasser Easynet: VIKING::WASSER