Nikola Tesla Books
THE MILITARY IMPLICATIONS 20 Tesla built a mammoth magnifying transmitter rated at 75 million watts peak power. In an article in the February 1935 issue of Liberty Magazine, Tesla hinted that this could be adapted to military purposes in the form of a defensive weapon. In the ar-ticle, he said:- "My invention requires a large plant, but once it is established it will be possible to destroy anything, men or machines, approaching within a radius of 200 miles. It will, so to speak, provide a wall of power offering an insuperable obstacle against any effective aggression.' 11 At the Geneva Conference of the Committee on Disarmament last summer, the USSR presented a massive document which turned out to be a draft agreement to prohibit development and manufacture of new weapons of mass destruction. The essential essence of the proposed agreement can be grasped from the first and last pages we produce here. The itemized subparagraphs of the Annex are important because they describe the kinds of things that the Russians know are feasible and can be used if they are not banned. They would not normally be so specific, indeed they would not themselves normally initiate such a document or raise the subjects in negotiations. That they have done so point to them having investigated each item in detail, during which they would, of course, have attempted to devise advantageous use of them for their own ends. This would include experimentation and development sufficient to convince the hierarchy of the Politburo as to what the practical consequences would be if they were manufactured, deployed and put into operational use. -
