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Secrets of Cold War Technology: Project Haarp and Beyond

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The first half of the book is nothing but Tesla. A far too long history lesson for the rest of the book. The second half of the book does deal with cold war tech, but the HAARP project, mentioned in the title, only appears briefly.

According to Mr. Vassilatos, every technology in use is a pale imitation of, failed attempt at, or based upon a Teslian patent. I was surprised when fire wasn't included as an invention of Tesla's.

There are whole chapters which read as if a second author wrote them. Ghost writers aren't bad, but these chapters didn't fit.

The editing is THE WORST I have ever seen (I read over 30 books a year). The author is redundant in handling the material. The book could easily have been 50-100 pages shorter and still covered all the discussions. Misspelled words were so common, they shattered what continuity the story did have. If I was the author, I would be mad as hell at the way this book was published. As a reader, I am never going to buy another book published by Adventures Unlimited Press, assuming the text mistakes are theirs.

I liked the info about Tesla and the included bibliography.

Whoever proofed this text seemingly wasn't paying much attention to their work; there are a fair number of typographical errors throughout the book.

Editorial mistakes aside, this book provides a detailed and truthful history of wave and impulse technologies and weapons tested or employed by industry and/or military between the late 19th century and today.

The first chapters provide accounts of Nikola Tesla's aetheric energy/impulse experiments of the late 1800s. There's enough information here to bore anybody with a physics or engineering background (unlike myself), but it's a neccessary introduction to the remainder of the book. Consipracy theories regarding wave-based mind control and communications "blackout" technologies are clarified or disproved, and the frightful capabilities of real EMP and ray weapons are revealed. The last few chapters discussing HAARP/IRI and related projects are brief but informative; I expected much more information based on the title. A thorough bibliography which cites patent information is included to support the author's statements.

The book has its shortcomings, but to discuss the topics and projects covered in the text in greater scientific detail would require hundreds of additional pages. I recommend this book to anybody with an amateur interest in Cold War weapons technology, and as an introduction to Teslian technology and the history of wave radio.

I didn't even read the whole book, but I liked the Tesla info so much that I read it over and over. I've read lots of Tesla books and patents, and seen the Dollard videos and replicated the experiments, but this book somehow pulls it all together and explains the Tesla coils in a totally different light, even better than the Dollard descriptions. I wish there were more illustrations to show the amazing descriptions of tesla coils using impulse and tapping into the ether. I also liked the description of exploding wires as the initial experiments for Tesla's new type of electricity. But again I wish there were more pictures or schematics. I also wish the author would footnote some of the more amazing Tesla discoveries about impulses and ether. I also wish for an index. The stuff on orgone energy needs pictures. Unless you researched this stuff on your own and have an archive, it is hard to picture an orgone accumulator and other exotic invention apparatus.

I've read a fair amount of Tesla books, but have never read one that puts it all together the way this book does. I have tried in the past to understand Tesla science but electromagnetic misinformation (that everything needs to be based on electrons to be real) has stopped me. Following more of a pathway of Wilhelm Reich's work with orgone accumulators and cloud busters, I was carried into an odd understanding of etheric science, and saw the operation of devices that could not be explained with the electromagnetism I learned in college. Now, Secrets of Cold War Technology ties it all together for me.

I agree that typos might be edited out, especially with Amazon's one-off technology. However, the wealth of information and depth of understanding in this book deserve 5 stars, with or without the typos. If you want to gain an understanding that reaches beyond electron based science this book is a must.

I see the negative reviews as just empty bashing to run down the number of stars to discourage readers. In addition to being good science, it is also a very exciting and engaging story. Don't miss it.

First chapters are about Tesla vs Marconi fight. Sorry but I've never been so deep interested in Marconi's life so I can't compare him with that huge cience man called Tesla.
At following chapters it's possible to find a lot of really interesting introductory info about war- free energy - weapons- business, civilian and military search. Maybe 50 or more pages could be drawn by avoiding unnecessary author comments.
Any way I recomend any science free energy search interested people to read this book.

Unfortunately, it is virtually impossible to separate fact from fiction when reading this book. It is an excellent example of pseudoscientific writing - very entertaining if not taken too seriously.

Unlike active Tesla Coil hobbyists, Mr. Vassilatos has apparently never built or experimented with any of the wondrous devices he describes. Much of his writing about Tesla appears to spring from his imagination, not from Tesla's technical writing, patents, or lab notes. Mr. Vassilatos readily "reinterprets" what Tesla actually wrote to make it fit with his unique understanding about how Tesla Coils supposedly REALLY work. Unfortunately, he doesn't bother to differentiate between actual references and his poetic reinterpretations, so the reader is left to try to sort out fact and speculation on his own. Vassilatos' descriptions of Tesla's experiments, and in particular the operation of Tesla Coils and spark gaps, does not agree with the historical record (directly from Tesla), nor with experimental observation. His "theory of operation" for Tesla Coils is simply wrong. The "cold electricity" phenomena he describes does not agree with the experimental observations made (and chronicled) by Tesla himself, nor with experimental observations of countless Tesla Coil builders and experimenters over the past century.

There are many other, less expensive, alternative books about Tesla (such as those by T. C. Martin, John O'Neill, and Marc Siefer) that provide a more balanced, historically, and technically accurate description of Tesla and his works. And, they don't pack the conspiratorial sensationalism seen within this book.

Secrets shines the light of clarity and understanding on a subject most often clouded in conspiratist hysteria. Much of the book does center on the actions of Tesla, but there can be no explication of mankinds technological potentials and future without mention of the paths ALREADY laid out before us upon which we PUBLICALLY have not tread. Read this book and KNOW.