Perfume as a weapon
Danny | 17.09.2006 23:34 | Anti-militarism | Culture
Patrick Suskind wrote a book called Perfume about a child murderer who distilled his teenage female victims body fats to produce a presumably phermone-based aphrodisidac that he used to 'incapacitate' his lynch mob by means of a spray. This orginal piece of fiction became a word-of-mouth international best-seller. It seems someone in the Pentagon got a copy, for those child-murderers are imitating that fictional child-murderer.
There is an interesting article on New Scientist on the dangers of the new microwave weapons being deployed,
Microwave weapon intensified by sweaty skin
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn10084-microwave-weapon-intensified-by-sweaty-skin.html
which I guess merits a proper article here, ie don't sweat it when rioting, talc down regularly, but I was drawn by the reference to the the Sunshine Project ( sunshine being effective at destroying most biological and chemical weapons). I haven't come across them before but highly recommend their site.
Anyway, to be more obuse, I was drawn by this US army specification posted on a pdf on their website simply because it reminded me of the vilest aspect of Suskinds monster.
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Category #3: Chemicals that affect human behavior so that discipline and morale in enemy units is adversely effected(sic). One distasteful but completely non-lethal example would be strong aphrodisiacs, especially if the chemical caused homosexual behavior. Another example would be a chemical that made personnel very sensitive to sunlight.
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http://www.sunshine-project.org/
Microwave weapon intensified by sweaty skin
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn10084-microwave-weapon-intensified-by-sweaty-skin.html which I guess merits a proper article here, ie don't sweat it when rioting, talc down regularly, but I was drawn by the reference to the the Sunshine Project ( sunshine being effective at destroying most biological and chemical weapons). I haven't come across them before but highly recommend their site.
Anyway, to be more obuse, I was drawn by this US army specification posted on a pdf on their website simply because it reminded me of the vilest aspect of Suskinds monster.
"
Category #3: Chemicals that affect human behavior so that discipline and morale in enemy units is adversely effected(sic). One distasteful but completely non-lethal example would be strong aphrodisiacs, especially if the chemical caused homosexual behavior. Another example would be a chemical that made personnel very sensitive to sunlight.
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http://www.sunshine-project.org/
Danny
