The Army's Telepathic Ray Gun

The Army’s Telepathic Ray Gun A newly declassified report details the Defense

Department's mind-control weapons concepts
By Megan Miller Posted 03.21.2008 at 12:17 pm 3 Comments
What we imagine the telepathic ray would look like: Photo by Erin Silversmith The U.S. Defense department has tested some spooky weapons, but those involving mind control and telepathic attack may be near the top of the list. A newly declassified 1998 document released under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (download the pdf here), describes potential weapons for crowd control, such as a microwave gun that could beam words directly into people’s ears, and an electromagnetic pulse that causes epilepsy-like seizures.


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Military, Aviation & Space, defense department, mind-control, weapon The report also discusses a weapon that can heat a victim's body internally, producing an artificial fever. It is unknown whether the fever-inducing technology was actually tested, but the report notes that the equipment needed "is available today" and that the resulting fever would keep a victim incapacitated for "any desired period consistent with safety."

In an interview with New Scientist, Steve Wright, a UK security expert at Leeds Metropolitan University, warned that such technologies could be used for torture. "The epileptic seizure-inducing device is grossly irresponsible and should never be fielded," He said. "We know from similar artificially-induced fits that the victim subsequently remains 'potentiated' and may spontaneously suffer epileptic fits again after the initial attack."

NanoNose

QualSec enters $2 billion homeland security market

NORTH LOGAN, Utah, 20 June 2008. QualSec has entered the homeland security market, with the development of the NanoNose, the next generation in electronic nose threat-detection devices. Utilizing its patent-pending ROder technology, QualSec is creating a handheld electronic device that can detect explosives, communicable diseases, and hazardous materials in real time with instant read out of the threat and its level of concentration in ambient air.

Estimates of the homeland security market, both domestically and internationally, have been estimated at $2 billion annually.

QualSec is based at the Utah State University Innovation Park, located in North Logan, Utah. Utah State University is a leader among research institutions, with a strong presence in homeland security product development as well as agricultural and food service quality control.





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