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         MindNet Journal - Vol. 1, No. 85
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         V E R I C O M M sm                 "Quid veritas est?"
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    The following is excerpted from:

    New World Vistas: Air and Space Power for the 21st Century
    Ancillary Volume

    Document courtesy of International Committee for the Convention
    Against Offensive Microwave Weapons and Resonance magazine.

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    BIOLOGICAL PROCESS CONTROL

    By USAF Scientific Advisory Board (SAB)

    June 1996

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    Looking 50 years into the future is extremely easy and, at the
    same time, exceedingly difficult. Easy, since I will not be
    around to catch the flak for being wrong. Difficult, since it is
    really presumptuous to pretend that you have the vision to see
    the future. Nonetheless, you asked for it so here goes.

    As we look forward to the future, it seems likely that this
    nation will be involved in multiple conflicts where our military
    might cannot be applied. We will be involved intimately with
    hostile populations in situations where the application of
    non-lethal force will be the tactical or political preference. It
    appears likely that there are a number of physical agents that
    might actively, but largely benignly, interact or interfere with
    biological processes in an adversary in a manner that will
    provide our armed forces the tools to control these adversaries
    without extensive loss of life or property. These physical agents
    could include acoustic fields, optical fields, electromagnetic
    fields, and combinations thereof. This paper will address only
    the prospect of the physical regulation of biological processes
    using electromagnetic fields.

    The literature regarding the interaction of biological processes
    with electromagnetic fields is growing at a rapid rate. Sources
    are becoming more available, biomedical instrumentation is
    improving so that the interactions between biological processes
    and physical fields can be examined with fewer artifacts, and the
    principles underlying these interactions are becoming clearer and
    more amenable to theoretical prediction.

    Prior to the mid-21st century, there will be a virtual explosion
    of knowledge in the field of neuroscience. We will have achieved
    a clear understanding of how the human brain works, how it really
    controls the various functions of the body, and how it can be
    manipulated (both positively and negatively). One can envision
    the development of electromagnetic energy sources, the output of
    which can be pulsed, shaped, and focused, that can couple with
    the human body in a fashion that will allow one to prevent
    voluntary muscle movements, control emotions (and thus actions),
    produce sleep, transmit suggestions, interfere with both
    short-term and long-term memory, produce an experience set, and
    delete an experience set. This will open the door for the
    development of some novel capabilities that can be used in armed
    conflict, in terrorist/hostage situations, and in training. New
    weapons that offer the opportunity of control of an adversary
    without resorting to a lethal solution or to collateral
    casualties can be developed around this concept. This would offer
    significant improvements in the capabilities of our special
    operation forces. Initial experimentation should be focused on
    the interaction of electromagnetic energy and the neuromuscular
    junctions involved in voluntary muscle control. Theories need to
    be developed, modeled, and tested in experimental preparations.
    Early testing using in vitro cell cultures of neural networks
    could provide focus for more definitive intact animal testing.
    If successful, one could envision a weapon that would render an
    opponent incapable of taking any meaningful action involving
    higher motor skills, (e.g. using weapons, operating tracking
    systems). The prospect of a weapon to accomplish this when
    targeted against an individual target is reasonable; the prospect
    of a weapon effective against a massed force would seem to be
    more remote. Use of such a device in an enclosed area against
    multiple targets (hostage situation) may be more difficult than
    an individual target system, but probably feasible.

    It would also appear possible to create high fidelity speech in
    the human body, raising the possibility of covert suggestion and
    psychological direction. When a high power microwave pulse in the
    gigahertz range strikes the human body, a very small temperature
    perturbation occurs. This is associated with a sudden expansion
    of the slightly heated tissue. This expansion is fast enough to
    produce an acoustic wave. If a pulse stream is used, it should be
    possible to create an internal acoustic field in the 5-15
    kilohertz range, which is audible. Thus, it may be possible to
    "talk" to selected adversaries in a fashion that would be most
    disturbing to them.

    In comparison to the discussion in the paragraphs above, the
    concept of imprinting an experience set is highly speculative,
    but nonetheless, highly exciting. Modern electromagnetic
    scattering theory raises the prospect that ultrashort pulse
    scattering through the human brain can result in reflected
    signals that can be used to construct a reliable estimate of the
    degree of central nervous system arousal. The concept behind this
    "remote EEG" is to scatter off action potentials or ensembles of
    action potentials in major central nervous system tracts.
    Assuming we will understand how our skills are imprinted and
    recalled, it might be possible to take this concept one step
    further and duplicate the experience set of another individual.
    The prospect of providing a "been there-done that" knowledge base
    could provide a revolutionary change in our approach to
    specialized training. How this can be done or even if it can be
    done are significant unknowns. The impact of success would boggle
    the mind!

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