Not only he wished to give free, wireless energy to the world, he also wanted to establish long-lasting peace on earth.
For this goal alone, he designed the perfect plan: he would engineer a weapon so powerful that its energy bursts would “bring down a fleet of 10,000 enemy airplanes at a distance of 200 miles from a defending nation’s border and will cause armies to drop dead in their tracks.”
By constructing this tremendously powerful apparatus and distributing it to all leading nations, he would ensure that war would not make sense anymore since everyone would have an impenetrable offensive and defensive force.
Tesla thought that by selling his invention to the world’s superpowers, he would receive the funding required to carry on with his ultimate experiment of generating unlimited energy.
He initially reached out to J.P. Morgan Jr. by sending him a letter on November 29, 1934, at a time when war clouds were once again forming above Europe.
“I have made recent discoveries of inestimable value…The flying machine has completely demoralized the world, so much that in some cities, as London and Paris, people are in mortal fear from aerial bombing. The new means I have perfected afford absolute protection against this and other forms of attack.”
Nonetheless, Morgan was unconvinced of Tesla’s idea.
He then tried to persuade Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain. His proposal was diligently considered, but upon Chamberlain’s resignation, after Hitler had outmaneuvered him at Munich, the interest shown towards this anti-war weapon had plunged.
After several failed attempts to raise awareness of his superweapon and its capabilities, Tesla published a treatise in 1937 called “The Art of Projecting Concentrated Non-dispersive Energy through the Natural Media.”
The thesis offered viable technicalities about this all-powerful invention that, as Tesla claimed, “would put an end to all war.” The original document is preserved to this day inside the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade.
After this move, Tesla had caught the attention of the Russians who expressed a great deal of interest towards his invention.
So, during the same year, Nikola Tesla had presented a more elaborate version of his plan to the Amtorg Trading Corporation, an alleged Soviet arms front in New York City.
In 1939, the year the second WW had begun, the first stage of this superweapon’s prototype was successfully tested in the USSR. To honor the agreement, Tesla received a check for $25,000 that would further allow him to fund his research.
Of course, Tesla had passed from this existence 4 years later, without seeing some of his most intriguing inventions being used on a large scale.