U.S. Military Developing Pain Weapon

Posted on March 7, 2005

The U.S. military is working on a weapon that can cause extreme pain in rioters or terrorists from a distance of up to 2 kilometers. Some scientists have expressed outrage at the military's plan. Andrew Rice, a consultant in pain medicine at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London, told New Scientist: "Even if the use of temporary severe pain can be justified as a restraining measure, which I do not believe it can, the long-term physical and psychological effects are unknown."

The exact specs of the weapon are unknown but New Scientist reports that the weapon could be a type of laser (or Pulsed Energy Projectiles) that would hit targets with an electromagnetic pulse. The idea would be for this pulse to trigger a massive temporary pain response in the human targets without causing them physical damage.

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