The Soviet Unions arms race with the United States during the Cold War included an expensive effort to develop mind-control weapons, the Physics arXiv Blog reports. Drawing on a new paper published by researcher Serge Kernbach, the blog describes the USSRs extensive efforts around what they called psychotronics — the equivalent of Americas own experiments with parapsychology. Among the results: the Soviets developed a device called a cerpan intended to generate and store high-frequency electromagnetic radiation produced by the human brain in hopes of influencing other objects. …
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