United States Government Interest in Telekinesis and Psychokinesis
US Military Documents, US News Media Reporting, General Research Notes
Online Resource Center by James A Conrad
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Hypothetically, for peaceful use,
advanced psychokinesis that is powerful enough could be used by a
government or organization of governments, perhaps using an army of
trained agents acting in unison, to stop planetary extinction-level
events like supervolcanoes, Earth-impact asteroids, nuclear power plant
disasters, even an extraterrestrial invasion, for which there are no
other available technological solutions.
In that respect, human civilization's long-term existence may depend
on the acquisition of psychokinetic abilities by at least some of its
members. |
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Fantasy "U.S. Psychic Army" Recruiting Poster
(No endorsement implied; fantasy art)
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| I created this fictional "U.S. Psychic Army" recruiting poster above on November 5, 2008, adapting it from the famous public domain 1917 "I Want You for U.S. Army" recruiting poster. (Fantasy artwork; no endorsement implied; more information on this image in end credits. Click for larger version.) |
| "[U.S.] Army working on Science's Outer Limits" Military.com, November 4, 2008. "For the last several years, the Army has kept a close eye on research into areas of science that might have once been called 'paranormal.'" |
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Russia's defense budget includes psychotronic weapons research
"Russia working on electromagnetic radiation guns", Herald Sun,
April 4, 2012, Australia. "Mr Serdyukov said the weaponry based on new
physics principles — direct-energy weapons, geophysical weapons,
wave-energy weapons, genetic weapons and psychotronic weapons — were part of the state arms procurement program for 2011-2020."
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Fantasy "Chinese Psychic Army" Recruiting Poster
(No endorsement implied; fantasy art)
| Chinese People's Liberation Army. 中国人民解放军 Nearest Recruiting Station. 最近的征兵站 I adapted this artwork from a 1970 China border guard training poster. The text on the small sign: 中国神圣领土,决不容许侵犯 translates to "China's sacred territory, never allow violations." (Fantasy artwork; no endorsement implied; more information on this image in end credits) |
A possible newspaper headline from later this century
| "PK Defeats Nukes" - A parody newspaper headline I created based on the famous "Dewey Defeats Truman" headline. Nuclear weapons were first used under US President Harry S. Truman's administration during World War II. Truman is pictured on the left. Psychokinesis (PK) is the only known hypothetical defense greater than nuclear weaponry and all other weapons. Digital artist: James A. Conrad (more information on this image in end credits). |
DECLASSIFIED AND UNCLASSIFIED UNITED STATES MILITARY RESEARCH — Documents
(1) 
1972 "Controlled Offensive Behavior — USSR" (DOD, U.S. Army, DIA)
1972 "Controlled Offensive Behavior — USSR" (DOD, U.S. Army, DIA)
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DECLASSIFIED: A July
1972 U.S. Department of Defense Intelligence report prepared by the
Medical Intelligence Office, Office of the Surgeon General, Department
of the Army, and approved by the Directorate for Scientific and
Technical Intelligence of the Defense Intelligence Agency that discusses
Soviet research into methods of controlling human behavior.
Update: In a
routine check of the links on this page on February 15, 2014, it was
discovered that the U.S. Government removed this document from the
Internet, where it was stored in a Freedom of Information Act folder at
the Defense Intelligence Agency. It is no longer available directly
online from the U.S. Government. To obtain it directly from them, you
would have to do your own FOIA request. Additional download locations: Source 3 (Stargate Collection), Source 4 (bibliotecapleyades.net). |
(2) 1973 "Paranormal Phenomena -- Briefing on a Net Assessment Study" (DARPA)
1973 "Paranormal Phenomena -- Briefing on a Net Assessment Study" (DARPA)
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DECLASSIFIED: The Rand
Organization's (an American think tank) January 1973 briefing paper for
the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), U.S. Department
of Defense, that studies the differences in psychic powers research in
the United States and the Soviet Union at the time.
Update: In early
June 2011, the U.S. Department of Defense removed this declassified
document from its website at the above address. In early September 2011,
the above document was discovered back on the DOD's website but moved
to the Freedom of Information (foi) subfolder titled
"homeland_defense/UFO" even though it does not discuss the subject of
UFOs.
http://www.dod.gov/pubs/foi/homeland_defense/UFOs/968.pdf (moved again, see below) | Internet Archive
Update: A check of
the above link on February 11, 2016 indicated that the document had
once again been moved, to the address below. It is not known when it was
moved; however, it was last saved in the Internet Archive on February
21, 2014.
http://www.dod.gov/pubs/foi/Reading_Room/International_Security_Affairs/paranormal_briefing.pdf
Additional download locations: Source 4 (remoteviewed.com). (1.24 MB) |
(3) 1975 "Soviet and Czechoslovakian Parapsychology Research" (U.S. Army, DIA)
1975 "Soviet and Czechoslovakian Parapsychology Research" (U.S. Army, DIA)
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DECLASSIFIED: A
September 1975 intelligence report prepared by the Medical Intelligence
and Information Agency, U.S. Army, for the Defense Intelligence Agency
that reviews psychic powers research in the Soviet Union and the Warsaw
Pact country of Czechoslovakia. The report also includes descriptions
and drawings of "psychotronic rotors."
Update: In a
routine check of the links on this page on February 15, 2014, it was
discovered that the U.S. Government removed this document from the
Internet, where it was stored in a Freedom of Information Act folder at
the Defense Intelligence Agency. It is no longer available directly
online from the U.S. Government. To obtain it directly from them, you
would have to do your own FOIA request. Additional download locations: Source 3 (The Black Vault). |
(4) 1978 "Paraphysics R & D — Warsaw Pact" (U.S. Air Force, DIA)
1978 "Paraphysics R & D — Warsaw Pact" (U.S. Air Force, DIA)
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DECLASSIFIED: A March
30, 1978 intelligence report prepared by the U.S. Air Force, Air Force
Systems Command, Foreign Technology Division, for the Defense
Intelligence Agency that examines research in East European countries
affiliated with the Soviet Union under the Warsaw Pact, in existence
from 1955 to 1991.
Additional download locations: Source 2 (Stargate Collection), Source 3 (The Black Vault). |
(5) 1980 "The New Mental Battlefield" (U.S. Army)
1980 "The New Mental Battlefield" (U.S. Army)
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UNCLASSIFIED: A December 1980 cover story, pages 47 to 54, about psychic powers and the military that appeared in Military Review
magazine, an official publication of the U.S. Army. It was written by
Lieutenant Colonel John B. Alexander, U.S. Inspector General Agency,
Department of the Army. The magazine article is in the public domain.
Publisher: U.S. Army. Military Review home page
Historical note:
Alexander states on his website that "This is the first article in a
U.S. military journal to address the use of psychic capabilities." In
the quote displayed here upper right, "quantum lead" is likely meant by
Alexander to read "qauntum leap" (it may be a typo from the era when
typewriters were still used), which means "an abrupt change, sudden
increase, or dramatic advance." Note: The article on Alexander's website consists of high resolution jpg scans of the article pages (1 to 2 MB each). If you prefer to read it on a web page or by way of smaller file size gif scans or a single PDF document, visit the alternate sources below. Additional download locations: Source 3 (bibliotecapleyades.net; web page and gif scans), Source 4 (icomw.org; single pdf document). |
(6) 1983 Defense Intelligence Agency report on James Randi's "Project Alpha" hoax (DIA, DOD, CIA)
1983 Defense Intelligence Agency report on James Randi's "Project Alpha" hoax (DIA, DOD, CIA)
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DECLASSIFIED: A March
4, 1983 briefing paper by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency,
Department of Defense, declassified through the CIA (final recipient of
the file) that accuses magician-skeptic James Randi of "gross
distortions" in his claims that his Project Alpha hoax
involving two young men with alleged PK powers successfully fooled
scientists. This document was declassified by the Central Intelligence
Agency on August 7, 2000.
Additional download locations: Source 3 (Daz Smith, RemoteViewed.com), Source 4 (Tamra L. Temple, Stargate-Interactive.com). |
(7) 1983 "Soviet Psi Experiments" Cryptolog newsletter, U.S. National Security Agency (NSA)
1983 "Soviet Psi Experiments" Cryptolog newsletter, U.S. National Security Agency (NSA)
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DECLASSIFIED: A
December 1983 five-page article, pages 9 to 13, that appeared in the
monthly employee newsletter of the National Security Agency. It reported
on a lecture by physicist Russell Targ
given as part of his participation as one of a number of speakers in a
meeting titled "Seminar on Applied Anomalous Phenomena" that took place
in Leesburg, Virginia on December 1, 1983.
Targ had recently returned from Russia where he, his Russian-speaking
daughter, and a colleague had visited, by way of an official
invitation, several Soviet facilities that were studying psychic powers.
Other papers presented at the seminar included reports of then current
U.S. research in ESP, psychokinesis, precognition, and experiments in
remote viewing and sensing by U.S.-based remote viewers. Additional download locations: Source 3 (The Black Vault), Source 4 (cryptome.org). |
(8) 1985 "Psychokinesis and Its Possible Implication to Warfare Strategy" (U.S. Army)
1985 "Psychokinesis and Its Possible Implication to Warfare Strategy" (U.S. Army)
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DECLASSIFIED: A June
7, 1985 research paper by Major W. Gary Norton, U.S. Army, for the U.S.
Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas USA
that studies the possible military value of psychokinesis. The report
was done as a course requirement.
Information page: http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADB097979
http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADB097979&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf
Additional download locations: Source 3 (3.44 MB) | Internet Archive (U.S. Gov't, second subdomain file location at the Defense Technical Information Center, .pdf file), Source 4 (The Black Vault). |
(9) 1988 "Psychic Warfare: Exploring the Mind Frontier" (U.S. Army)
1988 "Psychic Warfare: Exploring the Mind Frontier" (U.S. Army)
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DECLASSIFIED: A May
1988 research paper by Lieutenant Colonel Dolan M. McKelvy, M.S., U.S.
Air Force, for the U.S. Air War College, Air University, Maxwell Air
Force Base, Alabama, USA, that studies the possible military value of
psychokinesis. The report was done as a course requirement.
Information page: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA202099
Information page: http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA202099
PDF: http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA202099&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf (moved, see below) | No Internet Archive
PDF: http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA202099&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf (moved, see below) | No Internet Archive
Update: A check of
the above links on February 15, 2016 indicated that the document had
been moved to the address below. It is not known when it was moved. The
Internet Archive has a single February 2014 listing for each, but no
document to download.
Additional download location: http://jamesaconrad.com/TK/Psychic-Warfare-USAF-May-88.pdf
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(10) 1988 "The Mind Has No Firewall" (U.S. Army)
1988 "The Mind Has No Firewall" (U.S. Army)
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UNCLASSIFIED: Parameters
magazine, Spring 1988, pages 84 to 92, by Lieutenant Colonel Timothy L.
Thomas (US Army, Retired), an analyst at the Foreign Military Studies
Office, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Note: the article is in the public
domain. The publisher informed me that they do not have digital pictures
available of Parameters covers for issues this far back. Publisher: U.S. Army War College. Parameters home page.
Information page (scroll down for article entry and link): http://www.au.af.mil/info-ops/perception.htm
Article text: http://www.carlisle.army.mil/USAWC/parameters/Articles/98spring/thomas.htm | Internet Archive
Additional article text location: Source 3 (scribd.com).
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(11) 2004 "Teleportation Physics Study" (U.S. Air Force)
2004 "Teleportation Physics Study" (U.S. Air Force)
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UNCLASSIFIED: An
August 2004 physics research report by civilian astrophysicist Eric W.
Davis, Ph.D, for the Air Force Research Laboratory, Air Force Materiel
Command, Edwards Air Force Base, California, that provides an overview
of teleportation research, theories, and reported phenomena, including
psychokinetic teleportation.
Information page: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA202099
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(12) 2013 "Turkey's Protests: Local Perspectives on Their Causes and Implications" (U.S. Army)
2013 "Turkey's Protests: Local Perspectives on Their Causes and Implications" (U.S. Army)
"His staff and pro-government media have reverted to conspiracy theories about who instigated the protests, ranging from Lufthansa, the CIA, and CNN to the American Enterprise Institute, an interest-rate lobby, the Jews, and even, telekinesis, a dark force that aimed to target Erdoğan due to jealousy with his success."UNCLASSIFIED: The cover story in "OE Watch" magazine (Full title and subtitle: Operational Environment Watch: Foreign News & Perspectives of the Operational Environment), published by the U.S. Foreign Military Studies Office of the U.S. Army, August 2013, Volume 3, Issue #8, page 61, by Karen Kaya mentions the conspiracy theory in Turkish media by pro-government officials that telekinesis was among the possibile methods that were being used to remotely attack the country's leader, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Article text: http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/OEWatch/201308/Special_Essay_01.html | Internet Archive.
Magazine PDF: http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/OEWatch/201308/201308.pdf
(5.32 MB) | Internet Archive. |
| News article cited in the above U.S. Army magazine: "Erdoğan's chief adviser knows what's behind Turkey's protests — telekinesis" The Guardian newspaper, July 13, 2013. |
 Why are there no declassified U.S. Government documents mentioning psychokinesis or telekinesis beyond the year 1988?
Answer: If there are any, they are apparently still classified.
Web page note: If you are
any of the now retired military officers who authored any of these
groundbreaking reports, or a surviving relative, and would like to be
recognized for your work with a photo on this page, please contact site
owner James A. Conrad. A photo in military uniform is preferred.
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US News Media Reports on the US Government's 1980s' Interest in Psychic Powers Research
Jack Anderson (born 1922 – died 2005) Pulitzer-Prize Winning Syndicated Newspaper Columnist, United States
Selected newspaper columns of American journalist Jack Anderson from
1981 to 1985 archived at news.google.com. The columns discuss the US
Government's research of psychic powers in the early 1980s. Included is a
quote by United States Representative Charles Rose (b.1939 – d.2012).
(Pictured: Time magazine cover, April 3, 1972.)
 "They could make every other weapon obsolete,"
said Congressman Rose about psychic powers such as psychokinesis in
1981 while a member of the U.S. House Select Committee on Intelligence
(Democrat, 7th District, Fayetteville, North Carolina). (Note to
international readers: "US Congressman" and "US Representative" are
interchangeable terms.).Congressman Rose advocated the idea that the United States Government might one day need to establish a well-funded "Manhattan Project" for psychic powers research similar to the effort put into nuclear weapons development that produced the world's first atomic bomb.
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Congressman Charles Rose: University of North Carolina Charlie Rose Collection page.
Rose larger color photo | Larger b/w photo - high contrast | Larger b/w photo Internet Archive - low contrast
"Pentagon goes sci-fi" Jack Anderson, January 9, 1981, excerpt: WASHINGTON — If you thought "Star Wars" was just an amusing fantasy, you underestimate the futuristic fantasies of those who run the Pentagon. They're spending millions of real dollars on a dead-serious effort to develop "The Force" as a military weapon. . . . "Voodoo at defense" Jack Anderson, excerpt February 5, 1981, excerpt: WASHINGTON — Last month I revealed a Pentagon secret that raised eyebrows from coast to coast. To the thousands of skeptics who wrote in, no, I don't take hallucinogens. The brass hats are, indeed, dabbling in the dark arts.
"Pentagon is said to focus on ESP for wartime use"
by William J. Broad, The New York Times, January 10, 1984
http://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/10/science/pentagon-is-said-to-focus-on-esp-for-wartime-use.html?pagewanted=all | Internet Archive
The New York Times, January 10, 1984: "Advocates such as Representative Charlie Rose, a North Carolina Democrat on the House Select Committee on Intelligence, say the possibility of psychic warfare is all too real, and might one day call for a crash program of development similar to the Manhattan Project that built the first atom bomb." |
General Research Notes
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15 Heroic Feats You Could Do with Super-Psychokinesis
by James A. Conrad, March 14, 2012
Super-psychokinesis or super-telekinesis might be achieved in humans
in the future through genetic engineering, a drug, or
technology-assisted means. The feats listed below might require one,
ten, fifty, a hundred, or a thousand trained agents, who might be
civilians or an elite military force under the authority of a government
or organization of governments.
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Nobel Prize Winner Says Psychokinesis Is Possible
 Excerpt from the book 10 Questions Science Can't Answer (Yet),
Michael Hanlon, 2007, pp. 165-166, Macmillan, New York, ISBN
978-0-230-51758-5. Parenthetical comments appear in the original.
Bracketed comments are by James A. Conrad. The physicists use the word
"psychokinesis" three times in their research paper.
"In their paper Biological Utilization of Quantum Nonlocality, published in Foundations in Physics in 1991, [Nobel Prize winning physicist] Brian Josephson
and Fotini Pallikara-Viras cautiously floated the idea of the
phenomenon of quantum entanglement, which Einstein famously dismissed as
'spooky action at a distance' as a possible mechanism for telepathy
[and psychokinesis]. ..."In brief, Josephson and Pallikari-Viras say that it is not impossible that the existence of 'remote influences' suggested by quantum theory (where say, the quantum state of an object like an electron or photon, say, its spin or polarization, may correlate over arbitrarily large distances after they have been split apart) may indicate that the same effect could lie behind the direct connection of minds (telepathy) and between mind and matter (telekinesis)." |
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Theoretical Physicist Says Technology-Assisted Psychokinesis Is Possible
"It is well within the laws of physics for a person in the future to be
trained to mentally manipulate an electronic sensing device that would
give him godlike powers. Radio-enhanced or computer-enhanced
psychokinesis is a real possibility."— Physics of the Impossible, Michio Kaku, Professor of Theoretical Physics, City University of New York, 2008, p. 94, Doubleday, New York, ISBN 978-0-307-27882-1. "The rapid rise of computer power by the year 2100 will give us power like that of the gods of mythology we once worshipped, enabling us to control the world around us by sheer thought. Like the gods of mythology, who could move objects and reshape life with a simple wave of the hand or nod of the head, we too will be able to control the world around us with the power of our minds. We will be in constant mental contact with chips scattered in our environment that will then silently carry out our commands." — Physics of the Future, Physicist Michio Kaku, 2011, p. 26, Doubleday, New York, ISBN 978-0-385-53080-4. |
| About the author: James A. Conrad is co-author of "Filmmaker's Dictionary" (2000) with Emmy Award-winning producer Ralph S. Singleton and author of "The Model-Actor's Dictionary" (1988). He is also an American telekinesis researcher with full-scale laboratory research experience. For 15 years, from 1993 to 2008, he was a published member of a Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI)-affiliated skeptics organization, a time during which he enjoyed the educational experience and interaction with numerous open-minded skeptics (yes, there are some). Contents copyright © 2001 – 2016 James A. Conrad except where noted. |
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Web Page Photo Credits
"I WANT YOU U.S. Psychic Army" fantasy recruiting poster: based on
the the famous public domain 1917 Uncle Sam "I Want You for U.S. Army"
recruiting poster by artist J.M. Flagg. This adaptation was created by
James A. Conrad on November 5, 2008. For more on the original poster,
see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Sam. No copyright is claimed by James A. Conrad in this new derivative work. Credit: James A. Conrad / J.M. Flagg / US Government.Chinese Psychic Army fantasy recruiting poster: based on a 1970 Chinese government border guard training poster, Chinese artist unknown. Artist of this derivative work: James A. Conrad, March 2014. Source image: International Institute of Social History (IISH, Amsterdam, Netherlands) / Stefan Landsberger collection. Web page: chineseposters.net/gallery/e13-783.php. In 1970, China had no copyright system. Its first copyright law was enacted in 1991. This noncommercial derivative work is believed to be fair use of elements of the original and presenting China in a positive representation. Similar to the US "Psychic Army" recruiting poster, it is presented as fantasy artwork in the science fiction genre and no endorsement in the real world is implied. Please contact the owner of this website, James A. Conrad, if you are a member of the Chinese government and have any concerns about the use of this fantasy poster, would like it removed, or have a correction to the credit information displayed. If you are a non-government Chinese artist and perhaps would like to provide a different, fantasy Hollywood-style poster with a modern era soldier and special effects, you are welcome to submit it for consideration, or a link to a website where it can be found. No copyright is claimed by James A. Conrad in this new derivative work. "PK Defeats Nukes" parody headline photograph: based on the famous "Dewey Defeats Truman" headline of the Chicago Daily Tribune newspaper dated November 3, 1948. This particular photo was taken after President Harry S. Truman (in office 1945 – 1953) had left office. Credit information for this parody image: Created April 1, 2015, published April 2, 2015 (here and Twitter), James A. Conrad (digital artist)/original photographer, date, event: unknown/collection of the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, US National Archives and Record Administration. Truman Library description: A smiling former President Harry S. Truman (left) holds a copy of the famous Chicago Daily Tribune paper declaring "Dewey Defeats Truman". The others in the photo are unknown, and the event is unknown; but the photo is good clear quality. This was post-presidential. For more, see: https://www.trumanlibrary.org/photographs/view.php?id=38592 and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Defeats_Truman No copyright is claimed by James A. Conrad in this new derivative work. Credit: James A. Conrad / Truman Library, US National Archives and Record Administration. Adobe PDF icon: adobe.com/legal/permissions/icons-web-logos.html. Time magazine cover photo of American syndicated newspaper columnist Jack Anderson: Time, April 3, 1972 issue. Copyright © 1972 Time, Inc. Seal of the United States Congress: public domain, subject to 18 U.S.C. s. 713. Use on this website does not imply an official endorsement. (Wikipedia / Wikimedia Commons). Charles Rose photo: Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives (U.S. Government). Brian Josephson photo: public domain (Wikipedia / Wikimedia Commons). Michio Kaku photo: public domain (Wikipedia / Wikimedia Commons). |
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