India’s red hot chili grenade
Think mustard gas is bad? In possible contravention of long-standing international conventions on the prohibition of chemical and biological weapons, the Indian military has announced the addition to a new weapon to its arsenal: chili grenades. Made from bhut jolokia — the spiciest chili pepper in the world, according to the 2007 Guinness Book of ...
Think mustard gas is bad?
In possible contravention of long-standing international conventions on the prohibition of chemical and biological weapons, the Indian military has announced the addition to a new weapon to its arsenal: chili grenades.
Made from bhut jolokia -- the spiciest chili pepper in the world, according to the 2007 Guinness Book of World Records -- the grenades are expected to be "effective nontoxic weapon[s]... [whose] pungent smell can choke terrorists and force them out of their hideouts."
Think mustard gas is bad?
In possible contravention of long-standing international conventions on the prohibition of chemical and biological weapons, the Indian military has announced the addition to a new weapon to its arsenal: chili grenades.
Made from bhut jolokia — the spiciest chili pepper in the world, according to the 2007 Guinness Book of World Records — the grenades are expected to be "effective nontoxic weapon[s]… [whose] pungent smell can choke terrorists and force them out of their hideouts."
I urge readers to be on the lookout for one of these things at the next international weapons exhibition they attend.
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