Tesla's Shocking Death Ray What You Didn't Learn in History Class

Among his most enigmatic and controversial creations was the infamous Death Ray, a technological solution he believed could end war and reduce it to a mere spectacle of machines. Tesla believed the death beam could prevent war by providing each nation with an invisible Chinese wall. He decided to take matters into his own hands and sent a detailed technical letter to several allied nations, including the United States, Canada, England, France, the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. The paper, titled New Art of Projecting Concentrated Non-dispersive Energy Through Natural Media, provided a technical description of a charged particle beam weapon, and it was the first of its kind.