Radio Frequency Warfare Hearing
We offer the lengthy prepared testimony at the Joint Economic Committee hearing February 25 on "Radio Frequency Weapons and Proliferation: Potential Impact on the Economy." http://jya.com/rfw-jec.htm (112K) Or zipped: http://jya.com/rfw-jec.zip (39K) It provides descriptions of the RF weapons, their development, research and testing, global spread, and threat to the infrastructure and national security. The Internet availability of Carlo Kopp's paper on the E-bomb and similar RFW information is cited as evidence of the spread of the threatening technology. The hearing evolved from JEC hearing testimony in June 1997 which described the threat from RFW, especially that developed by the Former Soviet Union: Magnetohydrodynamic Generator Frequency (MHDGF) Explosive Magnetic Generator of Frequency (EMGF) Implosive Magnetic Generator of Frequency (IMGF) Cylindrical Shock Wave Source (CSWS) Spherical Shock Wave Source (SSWS) Ferromagnetic Generator of Frequency (FMGF) Superconductive Former of Magnetic Field Shock Wave (SFMFSW) Piezoelectric Generator of Frequency (PEGF) Superconducting Ring Burst Generator (SCRBG)
At 08:17 AM 2/28/98 -0500, John Young wrote:
We offer the lengthy prepared testimony at the Joint Economic Committee hearing February 25 on "Radio Frequency Weapons and Proliferation: Potential Impact on the Economy." http://jya.com/rfw-jec.htm (112K)
John! You can't do that! That's putting bomb-making information on the Internet! It's safe to have it in government hearing documents, where only technically incompetent Congresscritters will read it, but by letting the public know, you're facilitating right-wing conspiracies and anarchists and terrorists and teenage kids and all those other dangerous people getting access to weapons of low-mass destruction! On a slightly more serious note, I'm surprised from the excerpts of the description that the $500 of parts would generate enough joules of electrical energy induced into sensitive parts of computer equipment in some reasonable range to do a lot of damage. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639
At 12:56 PM 3/2/98 -0800, bill.stewart@pobox.com wrote:
At 08:17 AM 2/28/98 -0500, John Young wrote:
We offer the lengthy prepared testimony at the Joint Economic Committee hearing February 25 on "Radio Frequency Weapons and Proliferation: Potential Impact on the Economy." http://jya.com/rfw-jec.htm (112K)
John! You can't do that! That's putting bomb-making information on the Internet!
Its not bomb-making, its destructive testing apparatus :-)
On a slightly more serious note, I'm surprised from the excerpts of the description that the $500 of parts would generate enough joules of electrical energy induced into sensitive parts of computer equipment in some reasonable range to do a lot of damage.
Wasn't he talking about EMI, not actual frying of chips (e.g., puncturing the 100's-of-nm-thick gate oxides in MOS)? I read only the excerpt, but isn't a spark gap used for generating a broad spectrum, including fairly high frequencies (think tesla coil)? Digital circuits don't like transients in their signals. High frequency RF is invasive. Capacitors are cheap. ------------------------------------------------------------ David Honig Orbit Technology honig@otc.net Intaanetto Jigyoubu "Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." ---Thomas Paine
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