DEW attack in Canneto di Caronia?

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Don't know if what was going on in Canneto di Caronia had anything to do with EM fields but this old Cook Report from 1987 also contained a few parallels.

Also some possibly related info below on EMF effects on humans (and how it was covered up), the Russian US embassy microwave attack and Dr Robert Becker's opinion on the woodpecker signal.

I remember the hysteria in the US in the late 80's/early 90's over EMFs. Everything from clock radios to microwaves to VCRs. While it is known that EMFs can cause strange mental phenomena in short range at strong field strength, those fields drop off logarithmically by distance. I've always though the potential effects of these to be quite overblown in normal use cases, much like all the noise about cell phones and brain cancer, which they are now finding has no real scientific basis.

The "Russian Woodpecker" has been offline since the collapse of the USSR. It was an over-the-horizon advanced missile warning radar system called Duga.