IP: Re: MISSILE DEFENSE: COUNTERMEASURES REPORT CALLS FOR DELAY

[David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 18:19:11 -0400
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
> From: "Richard J. Solomon" <rsolomon () dsl cis upenn edu>
>
> In the old news department, while we were in Las Vegas I came across 
> a set of reprinted documents (for a buck) written by Nikola Tesla in 
> 1934 for his "Teleforce" -- a system to shoot down invading 
> airplanes with electrostatically charged "death ray" particles. 
> According to the reprint (1998), it was being seriously investigated 
> by the SDI team in the early 1990s. His papers were classified by 
> the FBI in 1942, but for some reason during the cold war were 
> shipped to his hometown in Yugoslavia whereupon the Soviets picked 
> them up. The Yugoslavs eventually made them available to western 
> researchers, so hence SDI. What comes around goes around? Tesla 
> coils anyone?
>
> Richard