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With The Zapping of America, Paul Brodeur has extended his reputation as a thorough and unrelenting science writer. But more than a science writer, Brodeur, a staff writer for The New Yorker, digs for the undisclosed hazards of microwave radiation. With amazing detail and research, Brodeur impresses upon the public its own very lethal ignorance of microwave radiation, and further divulges the secrets of microwave research hidden by the military and industrial powers around the world for nearly 30 years...
...BRODEUR'S BOOK IS downright frightening. With a chilling absence of tone or bias, Brodeur shows that microwaves have occupied a place in American life since the beginning of the century, without commanding any kind of public awareness or concern about their effect on life or the environment...
...Brodeur traces the growth of microwave technology from its inception as part of a burgeoning communications revolution which began with Thomas Alva Edison's electric light bulb. Radio wave communication became a reality in 1915 with the invention of wireless telegraphy or "radio," and since then, inventors and scientists and engineers have honed their skills in radio wave technology, eventually learning to cram waves into the smallest possible frequencies technology could manage...
...book is not an attack on microwaves; Brodeur carefully shows us that microwaves have many constructive uses. The hazards that have developed from the growth of microwave technology are due not to the microwaves, but to the people who have been in control of them and their careless tendency to classify the whole truth about microwaves as a state secret...
...Brodeur writes...