In Popular Culture
- The idea that a death ray was possibly invented by Nikola Tesla and may have caused the Tunguska event was explored in an episode of Dark Matters: Twisted But True in a story entitled "Radio Waves of Death".
- In the book Goliath by Scott Westerfeld, the Tunguska event was caused by Goliath, Nikola Tesla's death ray-like weapon.
- This theory is also brought up in one of Spider Robinson's Callahan's books.
- Tesla is said to be instrumental in building powerful ray weapons in C&C:Red Alert 3
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