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Harper's excerpts from a USAF research report about nonlethal weapons. This is crazy stuff that stirs horrifying fantasies of large-scale mind control. On the other hand, many of the weapons are quite imaginative:

Pheromones: The chemical substances released by animals to influence physiology or behavior of other members of the same species. One use of pheromones, at the most elemental level, could be to mark target individuals and then release bees to attack them.

Imagine the collateral benefits of weapons such as these. Lots of insane terrorist movements glorify death as martyrdom, but how would you like to suffer from the "bees revenge"? It won't kill you, but a few hundred bee stings sure will keep you very unhappy for a week. Or what if pheromones could be placed onto dangerous materials, so you could find the bomb shops by following swarms of bees? You could even plant fake materials in this way, which would give a whole new meaning to a "sting" operation.