Word: brodeur
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Whether humans are similarly affected is debatable. In his popular and alarming book, The Zapping of America, Paul Brodeur said that Soviet scientists found during studies in the 1950s that workers exposed to microwave radiation were complaining of headaches, eye pain, weariness, memory loss, and a host of other ailments. As a result, while bombarding the U.S. embassy with higher levels, the Soviets set a microwave limit for their own people of no more than ten microwatts per sq. cm, a thousand times less than the U.S. standard...
...military vessels are often equipped with microwave beams with which they can zap each other. The battle continues on land. Much of the national security paranoia in this country surrounding the release of microwave discoveries may be due to the fact that the Soviets beat us to the punch. Brodeur points out that the Kremlin was beaming microwaves on the U.S. Embassy in Moscow long before U.S. intelligence officials thought of harnessing microwaves and beaming them in the opposite direction...
...addition to the mind-control applications, microwaves are being harnessed for what Brodeur dubs "total electronic warfare." Both the United States and the USSR are rapidly learning how to use microwaves to inflict severe burns on humans, as well as refining their surveillance, radar and rocket-jamming techniques. The microwave race spirals endlessly, leaking more radiation into the environment and into our bodies...
...MOST HORRIFYING part of the story is that, despite Brodeur's seemingly comprehensive research and documentation, he himself claims to know only the "tip of the iceberg." He does propose a solution, though it seems almost limp and pragmatically hopeless...
...Brodeur says he was fettered and harassed by the military establishment in his research, and he now proclaims that The Zapping of America has ended the microwave cover-up. The next and only step is to arrest the zapping, and Brodeur's concludes that only persistent and widespread public vigilance will stop the evil zappers. Surrounded by the military industrial maze which Brodeur vividly details, it is at least comforting to know that there may still be an escape from the microwave crossfire--thanks to a conscientious muckraker like Brodeur...