Death Ray

The Air Force has published a new manual on the handling of "Directed Energy Weapons", or "DEWS" in Air Force lingo. Death rays by any other name, the DEWS "include, but are not limited to, high-energy lasers, weaponized microwave and millimeter wave beams, explosive-driven electromagnetic pulse devices, acoustic weapons, laser induced plasma channel systems, non-lethal directed energy devices, and atomic-scale and subatomic particle beam weapons," manual instructs. They "create unique hazards that are different from conventional and nuclear weapons," says the manual, before noting that some DEWS use ionizing radiation, which can scramble a person's DNA.