The microwave gun (ADS)

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Effects of GHz radiation on the human nervous system: Recent developments in the technology of political control
Paper presented by Harian E. Girard, Phliadelphia, NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Coherent and Emergent Phenomena in Biomolecular Systems, The University of Arizona, January 15–1991. The effect of gigahertz radiation pulsed at ultra-low frequencies on the human brain and neuromuscular system. Domestically, the new communications equipment is being used to torture and murder persons who match profiles imagined to be able to screen a given population for terrorists.
Crowd-control cookery: Microwaves among new non-lethal weapons
By John Yaukey, Gannett News Service, [9 April 2000]. Police and soldiers have at their disposal a new arsenal designed to sting, stun, entrap, immobilize, sicken, knock the wind out of—but not kill—assailants, suspects, agitators or enemies. What's in the U.S. R&D pipeline raises eyebrows. The new methods may be counterproductive.
The Pentagon's People Zapper
By Martin A. Lee, smygo, 15 April 2002. Supposedly the perfect nonlethal crowd control device—a high-powered energy beam that can disperse an unruly mob without killing, maiming, or harming anyone. Targets of this concentrated electromagnetic pulse briefly experience intense pain and confusion, prompting them to leave the area in hurry. For use where a small number of American troops or military police are confronted by a horde of angry civilians. Use of hallucenigenic gas Vietnam War a failure.
Medium rare: the mobile microwave
By George Smith, The Village Voice, 4–10 December 2002. The Department of Defense's calls its electronic heat ray the Vehicle-Mounted Active Denial (VMAD) system. The microwaver's target is unarmed civilians. The Defense Department calls VMAD the biggest breakthrough in weapons technology since the atomic bomb.
Microwaving Iraq: ‘Pacifying’ Rays Pose New Hazards In Iraq
By William Thomas, 25 January 2005. Once activated, each hidden transmitter emits a widening circle of invisible energy capable of passing through metal, concrete and human skulls up to half a mile away. “They are saturating the area with ULF, VLF and UHF freqs with equipment derived from US Navy undersea sonar and communications.
Official Touts Nonlethal Weapons for Use
By Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press, Tuesday 12 September 2006. Nonlethal weapons such as high-power microwave devices should be used on American citizens in crowd-control situations before they are used on the battlefield, the Air Force secretary said. Domestic use would make it easier to avoid questions in the international community over any possible safety concerns.