David Hambling

Fair Game
The World

Ever think that you’re hearing voices in your head? Well, maybe you’re not crazy. Maybe. A newly released document from 1998 shows that the U.S. Army was working on a variety of nonlethal sci-fi-ey weapons including a telepathic ray gun designed to beam voices into the targets brain and a device that triggers seizures from afar. Journalist David Hambling has written about this report, and he speaks with Faith Salie.

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