The Application of Tesla's Technology in Today's World Page 25

24 This is the use of broadcast radio waves, to disi.e. electro-magnetic radiation, - orient mass populations. The effects are simultaneous over the whole area blanketed by the radio waves and its effects can be requiring only made almost instantaneous, a matter of seconds to initiate mental in-On the other stability in each individual. hand, it can also be used to slowly deteri-and orate the quality of mental activity body functions by constant exposure to rela-an extended petively weak radiations over riod. The advantages are the completeness of the coverage, near impossibility of defence against it and the fact that it involNo hardware in the form ves no logistics. - nor of missiles, planes, tanks, warships, troops -are required to penetrate enemy territory. The disadvantage is the inability to strictly define the area covered to suit requirements. For example, the radiated field cannot be made to conform to territorial frontiers. It is primarily a strategic weapon but can be adapted for tactical use by utilising high intensity beams directed at specific targets. Major General G.J. Keegan, former head of U.S.A. Intelligence Activities, has pointed out that if the Soviet Union were to use intense particle beams against United States missiles , the situation If, he says, the will not be completely hopeless . beams consist of charged particles, used over long distances, fluctuations of the earth's magnetic field will cause deflections of the beams sufficient to To take positive measures render them ineffective. to counteract them, and in order not to rely upon the earth's field can such vaque natural occurrences , be "wiggled". Behind this remark lies an obvious implication that the United States not only knows how to do this but probably has, or shortly could have, the If the Soviets use a beam of neumeans to do this. tral particles, such as hydrogen nuclei, the beam could be dispersed by causing a large scale explosion in the atmosphere, elevating tons of heated air inte and beyond the stratosphere. MAKIT [