15. Operation Sleeping Beauty: Sonic Weapons
In the 1980s, during the Reagan Administration, the Department of Defense initiated a top-secret project known as Operation Sleeping Beauty. This program aimed to explore the potential of electromagnetic fields, particularly in the microwave range, to disrupt the human nervous system. Researchers investigated the feasibility of using these fields to induce various psychological and physiological effects, such as disorientation, rage, or lethargy, with the goal of developing non-lethal weapons for crowd control and other applications. While the project was shrouded in secrecy, it reflects the era’s interest in non-lethal technologies for military and law enforcement purposes (teslatech.info).
