"Svetlana Death Ray " Topic

"About three months ago, during a conversation with Doctor of Technical Sciences, G.I. Babat, who was working at the "Svetlana" factory in Leningrad, comrade Babat and I decided on boundaries to a solution to the issue of an effective offensive death ray.

The issue of death rays have attracted scientists for a long time, but due to the fact that the problem had no solution for a long time, one can only find descriptions of non-existent projects in popular science or science fiction magazines.

However, one can present an idea for creating a death ray based on scientific foundations. I am not saying that all difficulties that will be met in the process are easily conquered and that death rays can definitely be obtained using the method described below, but there is a possibility that the question will be answered.

After a discussion with engineer G.I. Babat, I though through a series of details of this issue and even calculated the approximate cost of building the first prototype of the device. That cost is seven million rubles.

The large amount of necessary materials with the degree of risk did not allow me to request funding, and I continued to think the issue over…"
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The problem with the death ray is resolvable by simple inspection. A death ray which kills individuals by individual sanction would be tremendously expensive, cumbersome, and prone to malfunction where quite effective means of individual killing are already with us, a known technology, and tremendously cheaper, and quite accurate and serviceable for one ten millionth the difficulty.

A death ray that will kill en-masse falls under the same strictures. We have already such a weapon in the hydrogen bomb which will vaporize whole populations which can be scooped up with the debris by a bucket loader and hauled away.

Compared to these extant, inexpensive, marvelously efficient and easily constructable weapons there is no ppssible reason to make a death ray, unless--- you wanted a weapon that would kill a specific enemy population without the mas destruction of thermonuclear energy, or the possibility of destroying your own citizens. This seems like it might easily be accomplished by biological means where the organism cues on the DNA of the intended victims. Of course there is no way to single out the persons in your own population who have that DNA but are loyal to your own political entity, such as Russian, German, or Arab-Americans, but their loss is probably a small price to pay for the extermination of our foes.

A vaccination could de made against the specific agent. This would allow you to withhold it from those troublemakers or deviant or degenerate elements who are not politically or social safe.

Let me know where you've heard this before.

provided you are willing to do it.

I think the Soviets invented the Blame thrower.

I wouldn't say a hydrogen bomb is either cheap or easy to make, but compared to a death ray it is proven working technology.