Particle BEAM WEAPONS By: Liao Xianwng

Particle BEAM WEAPONS By: Liao Xianwng


http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a114383.pdf


Particle beam weapons are actually miniaturized particle
accelerators used for military purposes. They possess
advantages over other antimissile devices even including
laser weapons. To avert the danger of falling behind, both
the Soviet Union and the United States have stepped up
development in their efforts to turn particle beam weapons
into both strategic defense weapons and in-space offensive
weapons.
One day in November 1975 an American reconnaissance satellite carrying all
kinds of reconnaissance equipment was quietly watching the world turn. Suddenly,
overhead Semipalatinsk in the Central Asian part of the Soviet Union, it
detected fission products of a suspected nuclear explosion. Actually, the
Soviet Union had not carried out an underground nuclear test that day, and nor
had they carried out a nuclear test in the atmosphere either. Continued
reconnaissance detected more than seven or eight repetitions of this unusual
phenomenon. It was not quite the coincidence it seemed. At that time US
military intelligence experts were seriously concerned. Subsequently, after
further intense and close reconnaissance, they came to the conclusion, after
repeated deliberations, that this appearance of nuclear explosion protons could
be evidence that the Soviet Union was carrying out research into the use of
particle beam weapons. They also discovered that the Soviets were carrying
out various experimental activities all associated with particle beam weapons.
In recent years, news reports in the Western press on the subject of this
kind of particle beam weapon have been of two different opinions. One opinion
considers them to be a type of mysterious weapon that destroys targets at the
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speed of light, an unrivalled defensive weapon device with fast response time,
great accuracy and a thousand times better precision than the present antimissile
systems. This opinion also considers that the Soviet Union has made
breakthroughs in the field of particle beam technology which will allow them
to be well ahead of the United States in deploying particle beam weapons in
the early 1980s. This would therefore obsolete US strategic weapons. This is
casting a cloud over the US development of strategic weapons and has spurred
the US into stepping up the pace of developing particle beam weapons. An ,
alternative view considers the technologies indispensible to particle beam
weapons to be many. These technologies are complicated and for the time being
are presenting a number of problems that are proving difficult to overcome.
There is no chance of either the Soviet Union or the United States developing
a viable weapon system from particle beam technology in the near future.