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.



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      David Honig                   Orbit Technology
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"Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is
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