Monday, Aug. 31, 1992

Was This Stuff on CNN?

By Janice Castro

If U.S. forces attack the Serbs, the Americans will try to minimize casualties by using top-secret electronic and chemical weapons tested during the Gulf War. Cruise missiles generating devastating electromagnetic fields will knock out power plants and transmission towers as they fly over them, while destroying all data stored in tapes and disks at the targets. Other missiles will release showers of carbon-fiber dust to short out electrical installations. A CIA chemical, sprayed on roads or airfields, will rot tires. And if operatives can get close enough, a new microbe, dropped into fuel tanks of jets, tanks and trucks, will be brought into play to turn the fuel into useless jelly.