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Old 12-September-2006, 09:37 PM
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NPR once had a guy commenting on the Pentagon's research into nonlethal weaponry; he wished aloud for a weapon which "disable[d] an enemy with a crushing sense of his own inadequacy."
So they'd turn people into me on a bad day?
Which makes me wonder about chemical weapons. Sure, there are both lethal (nerve gas) and non-lethal (tear gas) chemical weapons. Are there any non-lethal weapons in use or development that have emotional or physiological effects, rather than "physical" (like tear gas)?
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