On Mar 28, 8:25=A0pm, "Torture Technology, News and Research"
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> wrote:
> http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/dn13513-us-army-toyed...
Well, how is that going to effect crowds.
In 20 years the only people the US Navy is going to have working
for them
is people watching spy satellites. The only people the US Air Force
is
going to have working for them is people making stealth hubcaps.
The only people the Marines are going to have working for them
is used Ospery salesmen.
The only people Congress is going to have working for them is
Wal-Mart nightwatchmen. And the only people the US Army is going to
have working for them is the Israeli Army.
>
> US Army toyed with telepathic ray gun
> =A0 a.. 12:00 21 March 2008
> =A0 b.. NewScientist.com news service
> =A0 c.. David Hambling
> A recently declassified US Army re****t on the biological effects of
> non-lethal weapons reveals outlandish plans for "ray gun" devices, which
> would cause artificial fevers or beam voices into people's heads.
>
> The re****t titled "Bioeffects Of Selected Nonlethal Weapons" was
released
> under the US Freedom of Information Act and is available on this website
> (pdf). The DoD has confirmed to New Scientist that it released the
> documents, which detail five different "maturing non-lethal
technologies"
> using microwaves, lasers and sound.
>
> Released by US Army Intelligence and Security Command at Fort Meade,
> Maryland, US, the 1998 re****t gives an overview of what was then the
state=
> of the art in directed energy weapons for crowd control and other
> applications.
>
> A word in your ear
> Some of the technologies are conceptual, such as an electromagnetic
pulse
> that causes a seizure like those experienced by people with epilepsy.
Othe=
r
> ideas, like a microwave gun to "beam" words directly into people's ears,
> have been tested. It is claimed that the so-called "Frey Effect" - using
> close-range microwaves to produce audible sounds in a person's ears -
has
> been used to project the spoken numbers 1 to 10 across a lab to
volunteers=
'.
>
> In 2004 the US Navy funded research into using the Frey effect to
project
> sound that caused "discomfort" into the ears of crowds.
>
> The re****t also discusses a microwave weapon able to produce a disabling
> "artificial fever" by heating a person's body. While tests of the idea
are=
> not mentioned, the re****t notes that the necessary equipment "is
available=
> today". It adds that while it would take at least fifteen minutes to
achie=
ve
> the desired "fever" effect, it could be used to incapacitate people for
> almost "any desired period consistent with safety."
>
> Less exotic technologies discussed include laser dazzlers and a sound
sour=
ce
> loud enough to disturb the sense of balance. Both have been realised in
th=
e
> years since the re****t was written. The US army uses laser dazzlers in
Ira=
q,
> while the Long Range Acoustic Device has military and civilian users,
and
> has been used on one occasion to repel pirates off Somalia.
>
> However, the re****t does not mention any trials of weapons for producing
> artificial fever or seizures, or beaming voices into people's heads.
>
> Potentially torturous
> Steve Wright, a security expert at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK,
warn=
s
> that the technologies described could be used for torture. In 1998 the
> European Parliament passed a motion banning potentially dangerous
> incapacitating technologies that interfere with the human brain.
>
> "The epileptic seizure inducing device is grossly irresponsible and
should=
> never be fielded," says Steve Wright "We know from similar [chemically]
> artificially-induced fits that the victim subsequently remains
"potentiate=
d"
> and may spontaneously suffer epileptic fits again after the initial
attack=
.."
>
> The acoustic energy device that affects the ear canals, disrupting the
> motion sense, may require dangerously loud sound levels to be effective,
> points out Juergen Altmann, a physicist at Dortmund University, Germany,
w=
ho
> is interested in new military technologies.
>
> "[There is] inconsistency between the part that says "interesting"
effects=
> occur at 130-155 dB and the Recovery/Safety section that says that 115
dB =
is
> to be avoided - without commenting on the difference."
>
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