US test of a "non-lethal" biochemical mortar, 2001-02.
(More available in the Online Clearinghouse)

"Non-Lethal" Weapons
Online Document Clearinghouse


Newly Posted Documents (in PDF):

Multi-Functional Grenade Modeling and Simulation
US Justice Department agents play "Quake" wearing gas masks and using chemical "knock-out" grenades as weapons. Heavily redacted.

Independent Tech Assessment: OICW Non-Lethal Munition
Including discussion of tear gas inadequacies and possible US development of treaty-busting (bio)chemical payloads.

Rifle grenade, patented by the US Army in 2003
for delivery of chemical and biological agents.

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Aerosol cloud generated in 1999 US chemical mortar tests. Click to enlarge.
(From OLDS
Demo Program, available in the Online Clearinghouse.)

Frequently Downloaded

"Aphrodisiac" Biochemical Weapons
US Air Force proposal

The Return of ARCAD
"Non-lethal" program revives Cold War chemical weapons

The Advantages and Limitations of Calmatives for Use as a Non-Lethal Technique
Read Penn State University's (shocking) report for JNLWD

Map and Fact Sheet Download
A Peek Inside the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate

 

 


"Non-lethal" Weapons News Releases

2 May 2007
New Non-Lethal Papers Document 1990s US Research Program

17 January 2005
Sunshine Project Responds to Pentagon Statements on Harassing, Annoying, and 'Bad Guy' Identifying Chemicals

30 November 2004
US Retains Patent on Treaty-Violating Biogrenade
See also: US Army Patents BW Delivery System (May '03)

19 July 2004
Lifting Secrecy Surrounding "Non-Lethal" (Bio)Chemical Weapons

16 April 2004
US DSB calls for use of calmative chemical weapons

6 January 2004

The Return of ARCAD
"Non-lethal" program revives Cold War chemical weapons

8 September 2003
Pentagon Initiates New Research into Prohibited Chemical Weapons

3 March 2003
Link and Discussion on US Gulf Deployment of RCAs
Why incapacitants are not "riot contol agents"

11 February 2003
Pentagon Perverts Pharma with New Drug Weapons
What liability for the pharmaceutical industry?

30 October 2002
NAS Withholds Key Info on Moscow Theater Tragedy

 

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