Reply #7: Captain Paul E. Tyler Medical Commandant USN attended a workshop [View All]

[bobthedrummer]

at Maxwell AFB in March 1984. His presentation was based on some of his research, titled "The Electomagnetic Spectrum in Low Intensity Conflict".

I have no doubt, based on available open source info, that people were among the test subjects used in developing a lot of the nonlethal/directed energy weapons in many nations.

Twelve years after Captain Tyler's presentation the Air Force's INSS put out another Occasional Paper "Nonlethal Weapons: Terms and References" edited by Robert J. Bunker. Contributors to this work, Col. John B. Alexander and Charles "Sid" Heal, were featured in Ronson's book.

In any event, this Occasional Paper from 1996 is a wealth of information about the extent of some of the arsenal availabe at that time.

http://www.angelfire.com/or/mctrl/nonlethal.html

Some of the bright talented people involved in this kind of research became whistleblowers-and were "punished" for speaking out. For example, Allen L. Barker.
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~alb/ugly/ugly.html