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China has accelerated the development of a new class of energy weapons against which the United States has no defense. The new weapons are designed to disable or destroy advanced U.S. military electronic systems such as military radars with a single blast. ...

According to official Chinese army statements published by the Chinese news agency Jiefang Ribao, the Internet version of the daily newspaper of the Shanghai Municipal Communist Committee, the new energy weapons are specifically designed to attack American aircraft carriers. ...

The new Chinese "pulse" energy weapons are based on a Russian design that uses explosives to generate huge magnetic shock waves that can destroy delicate electronics. ...

Ironically, the Clinton administration allowed top U.S. and Russian scientists to engage in a joint energy research program that helped to improve the new energy bombs. ...

In military form, the EMG is a conventional warhead that produces a magnetic pulsed field equal to a small nuclear bomb. ...

Russia has already deployed an energy warhead, called the High Powered Microwave system or HPM. ...

The U.S. version, an EMG warhead-equipped Tomahawk cruise missile, was used by the Clinton administration for "non-lethal" strikes against Serbian radar and command posts during the 1999 war in Kosovo. [end quotes]

"WND: Chinese Developing Pulse Energy Weapons"

I am sure the Pacific Fleet carrier skippers are thinking long and hard about these developments.

Heck, even the small ones sure would make nasty terrorist or sabotage weapons, wouldn't they? Especially if used in, e.g., NYC near where Wall Street's backoffice systems are housed.

-- redeye in ohio (cannot@work.com), February 16, 2000

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Oops. Topic should have been something like "WND: Chinese Developing Pulsed Energy Weapons".

-- redeye in ohio (cannot@work.com), February 16, 2000.

Hmmm...maybe that explosion at the Wall last week was a trial run to watch reaction and gain intel. This seems to be the MO. I'd say the Commodities board would be a more likely target. Lower security and would take out the Wall domino fashion.

-- mush (discovery@shields.up), February 16, 2000.

"The skillful warriors in ancient times first made themselves invincible and then awaited the enemy's moment of vulnerability".

Art of War-Sun Tzu

-- ~***~ (~***~@earth.ebe), February 16, 2000.