Dr. Baring has a long track record of research in this field, which includes the issue of radio quiescence in high field pulsars. The radiation physics is incorporated in Monte Carlo modeling of pair cascades in neutron star magnetospheres. One of the principal goals is to discern the action in Nature of exotic predictions of the theory of relativistic quantum electrodynamics (QED) in strong magnetic fields, foremost among these magnetic birefringence of the polarized vacuum, and the splitting of photons in two.