8.6 Neural Weapons
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if an effective cognitive weapon was developed by one nation. The fear of falling
behind in a crucial military technology area could make a neuro S/T arms race
a self-fulfilling prophecy. Jonathan Moreno believes: ‘The powers that can claim
the advantage and establish a “neurotechnology gap” between themselves and their
adversaries will establish both tactical and strategic advantages that can render them
dominant in the twenty-first century.’
As we can see from the analysis of the published information, up to now the United
States still has a clear lead in neuro S/T, but it is foreseeable that others could catch up.
The current global neuro S/T market has been estimated to be $150 billion annually
with more rapid growth expected in Asia and Latin America, which could overtake
the US by 2020. James Giordano argues: “In this light, failing to initiate and maintain
neuroS/T RDTE is not acceptable because the USG will lose scientific, as well as
economic and arguably military, advantage upon the 21st century world-stage.”
It is well known that both Russia and China recently studied the so-called nonconventional types of weapons that attack the brain and nervous system of a human
being. According to the results of the studies performed by S. Kernbach from the
Research Center of Advanced Robotics and Environmental Science in Stuttgart,
Germany, the Soviet Union invested over a billion dollars in research of psychics
and development of the so-called psychotronic weapons.
It should be noted that growing economical capabilities of China and its huge
investments in neurobiological studies, which was noted by NRC in 2008, and its
possibilities to experiment on living people without public media coverage on a
sufficient scale necessary to develop the technologies of neural weapons give this
country a real ability to leave the democratic West far behind.
In addition to traditional military threats from state officials, there may be other
new complex security-related problems on the horizon, which we will try to formulate
briefly below.
We have found out that there is not just a trend, but an actual scientific race aimed
at decrypting the human brain.
In this section, we have demonstrated how the emerging new field of warfare
(psychic activity) is possibly transforming military operations and will seriously
change the ways of war. According to the experts, more and more military operations will be aimed at achieving the required psychological effect, which in turn
will reduce the need for physical destruction and murder. At the same time, neuron
weapons will create new and unprecedented hazards resulting from its incorrect use
or uncontrollable rapid propagation, which will require development of a special
concept of neuron security that is generalized here.
NeuroS/T are at the edge of fundamental transformation of warfare methods.
States can attempt to dominate the so-called neurospace (the hypothetical space
where the human consciousness connects to the real world), which will be the final
battlefield; from neurospace, all other fields (land, sea, air, space, cyberspace) can
theoretically be controlled.
Considering huge breakthroughs in modern neuroscience, neural warfare tools
are not half a century away, as many experts earlier stated and the authors of this
book firmly believed; they can appear much quicker.
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if an effective cognitive weapon was developed by one nation. The fear of falling
behind in a crucial military technology area could make a neuro S/T arms race
a self-fulfilling prophecy. Jonathan Moreno believes: ‘The powers that can claim
the advantage and establish a “neurotechnology gap” between themselves and their
adversaries will establish both tactical and strategic advantages that can render them
dominant in the twenty-first century.’
As we can see from the analysis of the published information, up to now the United
States still has a clear lead in neuro S/T, but it is foreseeable that others could catch up.
The current global neuro S/T market has been estimated to be $150 billion annually
with more rapid growth expected in Asia and Latin America, which could overtake
the US by 2020. James Giordano argues: “In this light, failing to initiate and maintain
neuroS/T RDTE is not acceptable because the USG will lose scientific, as well as
economic and arguably military, advantage upon the 21st century world-stage.”
It is well known that both Russia and China recently studied the so-called nonconventional types of weapons that attack the brain and nervous system of a human
being. According to the results of the studies performed by S. Kernbach from the
Research Center of Advanced Robotics and Environmental Science in Stuttgart,
Germany, the Soviet Union invested over a billion dollars in research of psychics
and development of the so-called psychotronic weapons.
It should be noted that growing economical capabilities of China and its huge
investments in neurobiological studies, which was noted by NRC in 2008, and its
possibilities to experiment on living people without public media coverage on a
sufficient scale necessary to develop the technologies of neural weapons give this
country a real ability to leave the democratic West far behind.
In addition to traditional military threats from state officials, there may be other
new complex security-related problems on the horizon, which we will try to formulate
briefly below.
We have found out that there is not just a trend, but an actual scientific race aimed
at decrypting the human brain.
In this section, we have demonstrated how the emerging new field of warfare
(psychic activity) is possibly transforming military operations and will seriously
change the ways of war. According to the experts, more and more military operations will be aimed at achieving the required psychological effect, which in turn
will reduce the need for physical destruction and murder. At the same time, neuron
weapons will create new and unprecedented hazards resulting from its incorrect use
or uncontrollable rapid propagation, which will require development of a special
concept of neuron security that is generalized here.
NeuroS/T are at the edge of fundamental transformation of warfare methods.
States can attempt to dominate the so-called neurospace (the hypothetical space
where the human consciousness connects to the real world), which will be the final
battlefield; from neurospace, all other fields (land, sea, air, space, cyberspace) can
theoretically be controlled.
Considering huge breakthroughs in modern neuroscience, neural warfare tools
are not half a century away, as many experts earlier stated and the authors of this
book firmly believed; they can appear much quicker.