Russian Microwave Weapon Targets U.S. Diplomats

0:00On March 9, undercover US agents recently acquired a strange Russian device that could explain the brain injuries affecting American diplomats, spies, and troops for almost 10 years. Known as Havana Syndrome, these cases first popped up with personnel in Cuba and have since hit hundreds overseas and at home. The weapon is a tiny microwave gadget that fires silent pulses from a distance, slipping through windows and walls to target brain tissue without a sound. Times describes sudden vertigo, ringing ears, pounding headaches, blurry vision, and foggy thinking, leaving many sideline from their jobs. Security videos review by investigators capture the chaos, like FBI agents clutching their heads in an Istanbul restaurant or people dropping in a Vienna Embassy stairwell. Animal tests at a US military lab mimic those exact injuries, building on decades-old Soviet studies of microwave effects on the brain. Known as a 2023 Intelligence Report calls foreign involvement, very unlikely, officials keep

1:00digging for solid answers.