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Non-lethal Warfare
ResumeShock waves and sound waves, and, of course, knock-out gases--with the hope that they would be less lethal than the gas that killed hostages in Moscow last month. Ambiguous conflicts call for weapons that work in a gray zone, that stop and freeze and calm without killing, says a new report for the U.S. Navy. But does all that make it too tempting to pull the trigger. Maybe on you.
Up next On Point: non-lethal weapons.
Guests:
John B. Alexander, author, "Future War: Non-Lethal Weapons in Twenty-First Century Warfare?
Matthew Meselson, co-director of the Harvard Sussex Program on Chemical and Biological Weapons Armament and Arms Limitation
David Fidler, professor of international law, Indiana University
This program aired on November 8, 2002.