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  Consider a machine...called the Horror Machine. It starts by banging your head against a wall, so that you have an intense desire for this to stop... Next, it plunges you under water, giving you an intense desire to surface before you drown... 3

  The thought of being threatened with a lifetime on such a machine would induce sheer terror in a person’s mind. Never in human history have tyrants and madmen had such tools—tools which they can use to terrorize an individual or an entire population.

  Future technological advances will surely provide such mind control tools. G. Harry Stine, in Silicon Gods, predicts that, very soon, intelligence amplifiers—tiny microchip devices either implanted in humans or capable of being temporarily connected to the human brain and sensory channels—will actually allow others to “get inside a person’s head.” With such devices, we will possess the astonishing ability to hear the thoughts of others. 4

  Researchers are making rapid progress to bring this to reality. A recent article in Science News reported that “new electronic techniques are being developed to eavesdrop on the brain.” The techniques, under study at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, in AT&T labs, and elsewhere, may allow outsiders to direct a person’s brain cell conversations and talk directly to the individual’s brain neurons. Current research centers on the eventual employment of integrated circuit chips that can be either implanted in the brain or overlaid with brain cells. 5

  One shudders to think of the power this capability might give corrupt leaders or thugs bent on controlling the mind-thoughts of individuals. Stine, an optimist who believes that man will not allow the abuse of these capabilities, nevertheless warns:

  It also contains the seeds of unimaginable evil: the actual control of human minds by other humans. Not brain-washing. Not propaganda. Not any of the ancient and well-proven means of mentally or physically imposing one person’s will by police action or torture. But the actual control of the human mind. 6

  TOMORROW’S GESTAPO

  Parade magazine, in its February 23, 1986, issue, profiled Elie Wiesel, the courageous survivor of Nazi concentration camps. Wiesel, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, was a boy of only thirteen when he and his entire family became victims of the Gestapo. His parents perished. At a public school, young American students asked Wiesel about his dreadful experiences. “Can you describe the look in people’s eyes when they did what they did to you?” asked one intense young man.

  Wiesel answered sadly, “No, they behaved, they acted as gods. We victims could not look into the faces of gods, the faces of the killers. I only remember the eyes of the victims.”

  Elie Wiesel pleaded with the students to remember the Nazi holocaust so that it could never be repeated. But, in examining the newest tech tools that could be available to the future successors of yesterday’s Nazi “gods,” we must understand that the seeds of a technological nightmare have already been planted. These seeds could well bear cruel fruit in the dark days of the Antichrist. One shudders to think what tomorrow might bring as scientists in the employ of what might be the most cruel and energetic secret police in history crank out a succession of terrifying instruments.

  Many people discount the possibility of future abuse of these tech tools. They depict an alternative future in which the human potential for good will be realized. Given a choice, they say, man will do good. To think otherwise, they contend, is negative thought.

  But listen to the troubled words of Elie Wiesel, a sober man who knows much more than most of us about the evil that dwells beneath the surface in so many people. When asked by a young questioner if, perhaps, the Germans who committed atrocities in the concentration camps had no choice but to carry out the orders of superiors, Wiesel calmly responded:

  The killer has a choice. Every human being has the same choice. Some of the Nazis were highly educated persons. Some of them went home at night and read poetry. Yes, a killer chooses to be a killer.

  Wiesel understands, as Christians do, that man is a creature responsible for his moral choices. Men consciously choose to abuse technology and to kill other human beings. As we will see in Part III, the choice to kill—or to prepare to kill—is a choice being made by more and more government leaders. In spite of Wiesel’s sobering words, it appears that man at the end of the twentieth century is determined to outdo the Nazi holocaust, both in the number of persons killed and in the technical expertise of killing.

  PART II: AND HELL FOLLOWED WITH HIM

  CHAPTER SIX: THE WEAPONS AND WARRIORS OF ARMAGEDDON

  Shortly after observing the carnage and misery of World War I, inventor Thomas Alva Edison made a prediction:

  There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying that even man the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled...

  On August 6, 1945, the prediction of Edison was borne out, for on that day the fruits of man’s advances in war power came into clear focus. Early that morning a B-29 bomber nicknamed Enola Gay dropped a nine thousand-pound bomb dubbed “Little Boy” on the unsuspecting city of Hiroshima. The awesome explosion which followed leveled nearly every structure in the Japanese city, melted cobblestones, and killed or wounded almost eighty thousand people. The world had entered the nuclear age. The specter of World War III has haunted mankind ever since that horrible day in 1945 when the first atomic bomb caused such overwhelming destruction. General Douglas MacArthur aptly described this sentiment when he stated, “Modern war is ugly...a creation of Satan.”

  The twentieth century has seen astonishing advances in military weaponry. Only eighty-two years ago—about one human life span—Orville and Wilbur Wright brought to reality a primitive flying machine. The battle tank found its first real use in World War I, while nuclear bombs, strategic bombers, and aircraft carriers came into their own some forty-five years ago during World War II. Since 1945, further advances have been made. These include the development of intercontinental ballistic missiles tipped with multiple warheads and the introduction of “smart” bombs and tactical missiles during the Vietnam and Middle East conflicts.

  However, as remarkable as all these advances in weaponry have been, the next generation of military weapons—now in production or on the drawing boards—will eclipse anything we have today. By the early dawn of the twenty-first century, a quantum leap in technological sophistication and lethality will have been achieved as a vast array of mind-boggling tools of war are added to military arsenals.

  THE NEW HIGH-TECH ARSENAL

  The newest tools of armed conflict are frighteningly reminiscent of those seen in Star Wars and Buck Rogers movies. If this sounds like an overstatement, take a look at some of man’s new life-destroying military weapons. Each of these is either available now or will be in a few years.

  “Smart” bombs—called precision guided munitions—that take themselves directly to a minute, well-hidden target.

  “Stealth” aircraft, armed with nuclear bombs, that are invisible to radar.

  Laser beams that cut holes in airplanes and can even cause supersonic aircraft and speeding missiles to disintegrate or vaporize in flight.

  Computerized robots dexterous and rugged enough to help or replace soldiers in combat.

  Charged energy weapons, operated from space platforms, that can project a deadly ray to earth to irradiate hundreds of miles of territory.

  Neutron bombs that can kill men and women with poisonous radiation, yet leave buildings, vehicles, and other property intact.

  Biological toxins, delivered by aircraft and missiles, that can blanket an entire nation with odious epidemics of cholera, yellow fever, and a score of other infectious diseases.

  Chemical weapons which induce terror or hallucinations in an enemy’s armies and population.

  Drugs that cause soldiers to believe they are invincible “super-warriors.” Also, drugs that diminish or eliminate guilt feelings of soldiers ordered t
o commit atrocities.

  These are only a few of the destructive weapons we know either exist at present or which will be added to existing arsenals. They sound like science fiction toys created to excite the imaginations of young movie-goers or for use in home video games. Instead, they are scientific tools capable of creating a huge swath of destruction and terror.

  LIKE MEN IN A DREAM

  Commenting on this never-ending growth in the technology of warfare, George Kennan, former ambassador to the Soviet Union and one of the most honored statesmen of our time, stated that “we have gone on piling weapon upon weapon, missile upon missile, new levels of destructiveness upon old ones.”

  Significantly, Kennan added, “We have done this helplessly, almost involuntarily: like victims of some sort of men in a dream, like lemmings headed for the sea.”

  Kennan’s words are testimony that the hand of Satan is evident in the malignant development of the newer weapons of killing. Without God, man is helpless in stopping the onrushing tide of war. And leaders of nations are being led by the Evil One to marshal all the forces of technology in building terrible weapons of death.

  In this chapter and the next, we’ll discuss the new armaments. The modern weapons of war and their effects described here were researched from a host of sources: Air Force and Army technical reports and manuals, Department of Defense and Arms Control Agency documents, numerous journal articles, and several excellent books, including The New High Ground by Thomas Karas, The Weapons of World War III by William J. Koenig, and How to Make War by James F. Dunnigan. The knowledge and insight afforded by my own years of experience as a U.S. Air Force officer and professor of defense policy and aerospace studies will also be called upon.

  MICROCHIP GENERALS AND STAR WARRIORS: THE NEW MILITARY

  As you read of the new instruments of warfare devised by modern science and technology and wonder at their sophistication and lethal powers, keep in mind that these weapons are paralleled by the “new style” flesh-and-blood warriors who wield them. The U.S. military personnel who develop, maintain, and operate today’s technological weapons constitute a totally new military force. They represent an amazing transformation that has occurred in our nation’s armed forces.

  We still have our Marines, our Green Berets, and our paratroopers, and they serve well in times of world tension and regional conflicts. But in an age where the world is but an inch away from nuclear destruction and technological weapons are truly combat marvels, it is the high-tech specialist that is most in demand—and the most valued. Furthermore, in future wars, most killing will be conducted at long range. Missiles, antitank rockets, neutron bombs, and other weapons controlled from distances of up to seventy-five miles will be common. The era of hand-to-hand combat and aerial dogfights is ending. Today’s major conflicts will be fought without most combatants ever seeing the dead bodies of their victims.

  The high-tech revolution in our armed forces is dramatically changing leadership patterns. Present-day generals and admirals do not at all resemble those of the pre-computer age. All have college degrees, most at the graduate level, and increasingly in a technical discipline. Promising officers with doctorates in scientific curricula are now being assigned to significant positions of responsibility in charge of high-tech military projects.

  A first example of this new high-tech warrior leader was Gen. Lew Allen, appointed U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff in 1978. Holder of a Ph.D. in physics, Allen, whose previous job was commander of Systems Command—the Air Force’s top research organization—promptly reoriented the service’s recruiting and promotion policies to favor science and engineering personnel and boosted scientific research activities. Although he has since retired, Allen’s successors have continued his policies.

  Today, with multibillion dollar research budgets and an army of scientists and engineers, the armed forces are at the vanguard of the high-tech revolution. Military research is being conducted in virtually every area of high technology, from bioengineering to robotics.

  For example, take the role of the Pentagon’s DARPA in the development of huge, number-crunching supercomputers. DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has been called by Newsweek magazine the premier world computer research organization. According to Newsweek:

  More than any other single agency in the world, [DARPA] is responsible for the shape of advanced computer science today—and for many technologies now in widespread commercial use.

  The first supercomputer built (1964) was a DARPA achievement, and computer graphics is a DARPA-sponsored creation. DARPA is now directing an advanced artificial intelligence project and building an incredible supercomputer system to process information at blistering speeds.

  The Soviet Union also has its technological warriors. The military gets the lion’s share of economic resources from the Kremlin and has built up a technological combat force superior to that of the United States in a number of significant areas. Like U.S. military personnel, the new-style Soviet general, admiral, lower echelon officer, or soldier is a product of the technological era.

  Indications are that the people element will continue to evolve as newer technologies are adopted by the Soviet and U.S. armed forces. Military training budgets are increasing rapidly, and biological scientists are even now working to prepare the human species for the next world war. In U.S. News & World Report (May 9, 1983), it was stated that “as warfare becomes more lethal, combatants will be forced to change.” According to the magazine, soldiers will probably be immunized against stress and will be able to fight for weeks without sleep.

  In other sources, new drugs under development are detailed, drugs which could be used to inoculate soldiers against fear and which reduce or eliminate guilt feelings resulting from killing other human beings. Credible news reports claim that Russia has created or is close to creating chemical compounds that induce anger and aggressiveness in humans. Even psychic methods of warfare, including mind control, are under serious study by military scientists (see Chapter 11).

  It is frightening to contemplate that in battles to come, the horrendous instruments and machines of war may be operated and controlled by American combatants honed as intense fighting machines and by Communist super-warriors who possess little more than a desire to kill, maim, and destroy.

  ARE WE APPROACHING A WORLD WAR III ARMAGEDDON?

  In his book Approaching Hoofbeats: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Dr. Billy Graham truly demonstrated God-given insight and wisdom when he wrote:

  I hear the hoofbeats of the four horsemen approaching. I hear the thundering approach of false teaching, war, famine and death. I see and hear these signs as a shadow of God’s loving hand at work for the world’s redemption. God is offering hope for those who heed the warning. 1

  I agree with Dr. Graham. In the succeeding chapters, as we examine many of the incredible new weapons of warfare made possible by scientific progress, prick your own ears forward a bit and listen. Listen to see if you, too, can hear the hoofbeats of the four horsemen of the apocalypse approaching.

  CHAPTER SEVEN: THE HORRIBLE PROSPECT: NUCLEAR WAR

  Since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima in 1945, the specter of nuclear war has haunted the earth. (In 1961, the Soviet Union exploded a monstrous fifty-megaton nuclear weapon. This weapon had four thousand times the destructive power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima!) It is difficult not to be alarmed when we examine the grim statistics of nuclear armament. Twenty-five years ago, the United States had about 250 nuclear missiles, the USSR less than 50. Today, each nation has more than 2,000 nuclear missiles, including those on land (ICBMs) and in submarines (SLBMs). And that’s not all! Many of these missiles can accommodate several nuclear warheads—the Soviet’s largest missile carries up to ten—giving modern missilery an unmatched capacity for destruction.

  But of course, this is only the missiles. Nuclear weapons also are launched from strategic bombers and tactical aircraft. Pentagon figures show that together the two
superpowers—the U.S. and the USSR—possess in their combined arsenals a frightening total of nearly fifty thousand nuclear arms. And the total is growing.

  NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROLIFERATE

  In his 1982 report on military posture, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. David Jones, USAF, called the 1980s “the dangerous decade ahead.” Blaming the spread of nuclear arms, the report stated that “the nuclear umbrella is darker and more extensive than ever before.”

  In the previous ten years, cited the report:

  The warhead count had gone up 200 percent,

  Explosive power had grown some 30 percent, and

  Hard target kill potential had increased 200 percent.

  Today, it is known that eight countries—the U.S., the Soviet Union, Britain, France, China, Israel, South Africa, and India—possess nuclear weapons. However, in 1982, a Defense Department intelligence survey found that thirty-one countries, many engaged in longstanding regional disputes, will be able to produce nuclear weapons by the year 2000.

  Take Pakistan, for example. An impoverished nation with starving masses that can ill afford the expense, Pakistan is now on the verge of developing a nuclear bomb. Why? After Pakistan’s hated neighbor, India, exploded its own atomic bomb in the 1970s, the Pakistani leader, Ali Bhutto, stated belligerently that “we will starve, we will eat grass if we have to, but we will develop our own atomic bombs.” If the Hindus of India have this monstrous weapon, reasoned Bhutto, then the Muslims of Pakistan shall as well.