AFP/Getty Images A photo of the U.S. embassy in Havana taken on Sept. 29, 2017, after the U.S. announced its withdrawal of more than half its personnel in response to mysterious health attacks targeting diplomatic staff. A variety of possible causes — from sonic attacks to crickets to mass hysteria — have been considered, but no definite culprit has been identified. Russia, China and many European nations are believed capable of making basic microwave weapons, which emit focused energy in the form of microwaves and can be small enough to be hand-held or carried in a van or other vehicle. The U.S. has been working on such weapons for decades. The nation’s military revealed that it had developed “a high-power microwave weapon that could disperse crowds without killing people by rapidly raising body temperature,” according to a 2015 Reuters report.

Source: Huffington Post September 02, 2018 15:22 UTC