DID THEY ALREADY TEST A PROTOTYPE ON JOE? China crafts weapons to alter brain function; report says tech meant to influence government leaders. “Neurostrike is a military term defined as the engineered targeting of the brains of military personnel or civilians using nonkinetic technology. The goal is to impair thinking, reduce situational awareness, inflict long-term neurological damage and cloud normal cognitive functions.”

Ralph Peters called this one more than 30 years ago in his dystopian technothriler, The War in 2020.