Download or read book Non-lethal Weapons--a Fatal Attraction? written by Nick Lewer and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laser weapons, optical munitions causing blinding, electrical stunners, infrasound beams to disorient people, repeat pulse microwave devices, and a whole range of new chemical weapons (super-corrosives, super-adhesives, anti-traction and embrittling substances) - the list of new generation, hi-tech anti-personnel and anti-materiel ̃weaponry is a long one. These so-called non-lethal weapons are the subject of this remarkable book on an arms race which the general public has hardly yet heard of.