From eskimo!uunet!newstf01.news.aol.com!newsbf01.news.aol.com!not-for-mail Mon Dec 5 15:55:06 1994 Xref: eskimo alt.mindcontrol:1306 Path: eskimo!uunet!newstf01.news.aol.com!newsbf01.news.aol.com!not-for-mail From: wha33@aol.com (Wha33) Newsgroups: alt.mindcontrol Subject: *seeking info: GWEN (w/Robert Becker excerpt,short)* Date: 3 Dec 1994 14:20:15 -0500 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Lines: 100 Sender: news@newsbf01.news.aol.com Message-ID: <3bqgdf$3ai@newsbf01.news.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: newsbf01.news.aol.com I'm seeking further info on something called the 'Ground-Wave Emergency Network" a nation-wide military communication system of VLF transmitters apparently already in place across the U.S. The first and only reference I've found to GWEN comes from the book Cross Currents by Robert Becker, author of The Body Electric . The pages concerning GWEN are excerpted below. While Dr. Becker may muffle his suspicions concerning a more sinister purpose to GWEN, his arguments concerning EMP and GWEN hint that he may privately feel otherwise. It certainly makes one wonder what the real purpose of this system might be. Anyone with any info or ideas concerning GWEN is urged to post here and/or send email. < excerpted from Cross Currents: The Startling Effects of Electro-Magnetic Radiation on your Health by Dr. Robert O. Becker (Bloomsbury Publishing, 1991- ISBN 0 7475 0761 9) > The Ground-Wave Emergency Network (GWEN) (...) GWEN is a communications system currently under construction that operates in the very low frequency (VLF) range, with transmissions between 150 and 175 kHz. This VLF range was selected because its signals travel by means of ground waves- electromagnetic fields that hug the ground- rather than by radiating into the atmosphere. The signals drop off sharply with distance, and a single GWEN station transmits to a 360-degree circle radiating out from it to a distance of about 250 to 300 miles. The GWEN system consists of approximately 300 such stations, each with a tower 300-500 feet high. The stations are spaced from 200 to 250 miles apart, so that a signal can go from coast to coast by hopping from one station to another. When the system is completed in the early 1990's, the entire civilian population of the United States will be exposed to the GWEN transmissions. The rationale for the existence of this network is the government's concept that nuclear war is winnable if a fail-safe communications system is available for use during and following a nuclear attack. Such a system would permit the United States to order its nuclear-missile submarine fleet to launch an attack against the aggressor nation. The physical nature of nuclear war requires that this system operate by ground-wave transmission. Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) One aspect of nuclear war that is not well publicized is the EMP phenomenon. An electromagnetic pulse is a very short, intense burst of electromagnetic energy that is produced by the explosion of a nuclear weapon in space. If an EMP were produced by a nuclear explosion 100 miles above Kansas City, its energy would be so intense that it would shut off all electric-power systems, destroy all computers and magnetic disks or tape records, destroy the guidance systems of missiles and the computer and communications systems of military and commercial aircraft, and shut down all radio communications- across the entire United States . The military organism would be decapitated. In the military scenario, the United States would then be faced with capitulation or nuclear destruction. Theoretically, ground-wave communications would still be possible. However, the theory is tenuous. The GWEN hardware is transistor based; even if placed in "hardened" bunkers, it would be vulnerable to an EMP. In addition, the EMP would produce major ground currents in the path of the GWEN signals that could decrease their transmission capabilities. Finally, the locations of all GWEN stations are known to the Soviets and thus are vulnerable to attack. Nevertheless, the military mind has conceived of using the GWEN network to maintain communications following such a decapitating EMP attack. This is not the place for a full argument concerning the values and options of nuclear war, but in my opinion the reason for the existence of GWEN is specious. Nuclear war is not winnable. And the potential harm to the civilian population has not been addressed. I am concerned not only because of the of the data summarized in chapter 8, but because of the potential for behavioral and cognitive that have been discussed in this book. GWEN is a superb system, in combination with cyclotron resonance*, for producing behavioral alterations in the civilian population. The average strength of the steady geomagnetic field varies from place to place across the United States. Therefore, if one wished to resonate a specific ion in living things in a specific locality, one would require a specific frequency for that location. The spacing of GWEN transmitters 200 miles apart across the United States would allow such specific frequencies to be "tailored" to the geomagnetic-field strength in each GWEN area. While I doubt that this potential use has occurred to the planners of the GWEN network, or that such action could be deliberately taken by any portion of the federal government, the mere existence of the GWEN system may, at some future date, prove irresistible. * Defined in Cross Currents as : " ... a mechanism of action that enables very low-strength electromagnetic fields, acting in concert with the Earth's geomagnetic field, to produce major biological effects by concentrating the energy in the energy in the applied field upon specific particles, such as the biologically important ions of sodium, calcium, potassium, and lithium. " and "(...has nothing to do with the cyclotron, an early type of particle accelerator used in atomic physics)." See the book for a fuller explanation of various kinds of resonance.