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U.S. Military Unveils Heat Ray Weapon: ‘You’re Gonna Feel It’
Paul Koring -The Globe and Mail, 19 Mar 2012

In the ‘War of the Worlds’ the Martians used them to incinerate pesky humans more than a century ago. The Pentagon plans are more modest: crowd control of pesky humans. Still, after more than a century, the ‘heat ray’ has made the leap from fiction to reality with the U.S. military demonstrating the so-called ‘goodbye effect’ of directing electromagnetic waves at people. It delivers sudden, unbearable heat, like the invisible wave when a hot oven door is opened but far more powerful – an intense, enveloping but non-lethal blast.

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