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June 2008
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All Things Considered. Malcolm Davies
Discusses the Non-lethal Weapon Used by the Israeli Army to Disperse a
Palestinian Crowd Using Sound Waves. Washington, NPR, June 13,
2005.
Available online at: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=853298511&Fmt=7&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD
Ames, Ben. Global War on Terrorism Spawns
Rush to Develop Nonlethal Technologies. Military &
Aerospace Electronics 14:6-8 December 2003.
Available online
at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=11698768&site=ehost-live
Ames, Ben. Non-lethal Weapons Give Soldiers
More Options to Fight Terrorism. Military & Aerospace
Electronics 14:3-5 August 2003.
Available online at:
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=10529670&site=ehost-live
Amnesty International's Concerns about Taser® Use: Statement to the U.S. Justice Department Inquiry into Deaths in Custody. Amnesty International, October 2007. 7 p.
Available online at: http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/AMR51/151/2007/en/dom-AMR511512007en.pdf
Assistant Secretary of the Army. Acquisition
Logistics and Technology. Force Protection Technologies for the
2010-2020 Timeframe, by Marygail K. Brauner and others.
Washington, Army Science Board, November 2003. 379 p.
Available
online at: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA433178
An Attribute Based Evaluation II (ABE-2) of
Less-Lethal Impact Munitions. Institute for Non-Lethal Defense
Technologies, January 29, 2007.
Available online at: http://nldt2.arl.psu.edu/documents/ABE2_REPORT.pdf
Canada: Excessive and Lethal Force?: Amnesty International's Concerns about Deaths and Ill-treatment Involving Police Use of Tasers. Amnesty International, November 30, 2004. 17 p.
Available online at: http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/AMR20/002/2004/en/dom-AMR200022004en.pdf
Canada: Inappropriate and Excessive Use of Tasers. Amnesty International, May 23, 2007. 20 p.
Available online at: http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/AMR20/002/2007/en/dom-AMR200022007en.pdf
Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation
Program. The Moscow Theater Hostage Crisis: Incapacitants
and Chemical Warfare.
Available online at: http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/week/02110b.htm
Craviso, Gale L. and Chatterjee, Indira.
Interdisciplinary Research Project to Explore the Potential for
Developing Non-Lethal Weapons Based on Radiofrequency/Microwave
Bioeffects. Reno, NV, Nevada University, January 31, 2006.
15 p.
Available online at: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA443237
Craviso, Gale L. and Chatterjee, Indira.
Research on Non-Lethal Stunning/Immobilizing Weapons.
Reno, NV, Nevada University, April 2007. 13 p.
Available online
at: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA470768
Dando, Malcolm. Scientific and Technological
Change and the Future of the CWC: The Problem of Non-Lethal
Weapons. Disarmament Forum 4:33-44
2002.
Available online at: http://www.unidir.ch/pdf/articles/pdf-art1824.pdf
Davison, Neil. The Contemporary
Development of "Non-Lethal" Weapons. University of Bradford, UK,
Bradford Non-Lethal Weapons Research Project, Department of Peace Studies, May
2007. 53 p.
Available online at: http://www.bradford.ac.uk/acad/nlw/research_reports/docs/BNLWRP_OP3_May07.pdf
Davison, Neil. The Development of
"Non-Lethal" Weapons During the 1990's. University of Bradford,
UK, Bradford Non-Lethal Weapons Research Project, Department of Peace Studies,
March 2007. 44 p.
Available online at: http://www.bradford.ac.uk/acad/nlw/research_reports/docs/BNLWRP_OP2_Mar07.pdf
Davison, Neil. The Early History of
"Non-Lethal" Weapons. University of Bradford, UK, Bradford
Non-Lethal Weapons Research Project, Department of Peace Studies, December
2006. 42 p.
Available online at: http://www.bradford.ac.uk/acad/nlw/research_reports/docs/BNLWRP_OP1_Dec06.pdf
Davison, Neil. 'Off the Rocker' and 'On
the Floor': The Continued Development of Biochemical Incapacitating
Weapons. University of Bradford, UK, Bradford Disarmament
Research Centre, Department of Peace Studies, August 2007. 63
p.
Available online at: http://www.bradford.ac.uk/acad/nlw/research_reports/docs/BDRC_ST_Report_No_8.pdf
Davison, Neil and Lewer, Nick. Bradford
Non-Lethal Weapons Research Project. University of Bradford, UK,
Centre for Conflict Resolution, Department of Peace Studies, March 2006.
76 p.
Available online at: http://www.bradford.ac.uk/acad/nlw/research_reports/docs/BNLWRPResearchReportNo8_Mar06.pdf
Defense Science Board. Defense Science
Board Task Force on Directed Energy Weapons. Washington, Office
of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics,
December 2007. 98 p.
Available online at: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA476320
Haberland, Bastian B. Certain Controversies
Concerning Non-Lethal Weapons. New Zealand Armed Forces Law
Review 6:20-45 December 2006.
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mth&AN=25268697&site=ehost-live
Hughes, Edward L. Report on the Fifth
International Law Enforcement Forum on Minimal Force Options and Less-Lethal
Technologies. Institute for Non-Lethal Defense Technologies,
November 2006.
Available online at: http://nldt2.arl.psu.edu/documents/2006_ILEF_Report_FINAL.pdf
Institute for Non-Lethal Defense
Technologies.
Available online at: http://nldt2.arl.psu.edu/
Located
at Pennsylvania State University, the INLDT promotes interdisciplinary research
and development of non-lethal concepts and technologies for conflict resolution;
Efforts support various military and law enforcement agencies; Site offers an
International Law Enforcement Forum, training and education, full-text
publications, etc.
Jozefowicz, Chris. Undue Force?
Current Science 91:10 March 3, 2006.
"Taser stun guns are
designed to be nonlethal, but critics say the guns have killed some
people. The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California issued a
report suggesting that Tasers might have been involved in as many as 148 deaths
in the US and Canada since 1999" - Abstract.
Available online
at: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1000378541&Fmt=7&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD
Karcher, David and Wertheim, Eric.
Safeguarding Peace, Safeguarding Life: How Non-Lethal Directed Energy
Weapons Promise Both. Homeland Defense Journal
Online
Available online at: http://www.homelanddefensejournal.com/scoop_nlw.htm
Karp, Jonathan. Pentagon Backs Taser's
Assertion Its Guns Are Safe. Wall Street Journal, p
B-2, January 13, 2005.
Available online at: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=777968371&sid=3&Fmt=3&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD
Knickerbocker, Brad and Campbell, Kim. The
Fuzzy Ethics of Nonlethal Weapons: Pentagon Wants to Use Riot-Control
Agents in Iraq, but Critics Say It's Chemical Warfare. The
Christian Science Monitor 95:2 February 14, 2003.
Available
online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=9089160&site=ehost-live
Lack of Nonlethal Weapons Capabilities Hindering U.S. Efforts in Postwar Iraq; Experts Urge Department of Defense to Increase Spending Seven-Fold. Council on Foreign Relations, February 26, 2004.
Available online at: http://www.cfr.org/publication.html?id=6794
Lakoski, Joan M. and others. The
Advantages and Limitations of Calmatives for Use as a Non-Lethal
Technique. Pennsylvania State University, Applied Research
Laboratory, College of Medicine, October 3, 2000. 49
p.
Available online at: http://www.sunshine-project.org/incapacitants/jnlwdpdf/psucalm.pdf
Less-Lethal Operational Scenarios for Law
Enforcement, edited by Edward Hughes. Institute for
Non-Lethal Defense Technologies, August 26, 2005.
Available online
at: http://nldt2.arl.psu.edu/documents/operational_scenarios_final_draft_report.pdf
Lewer, Nick. Non Lethal Weapons:
Operational and Policy Developments. The Lancet
362:S20 December 2003.
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=11790970&site=ehost-live
Lobel, Hannah. The Big Hurt.
Utne No. 132:24+ November-December 2005.
The Pentagon
has a new weapon, the Active Denial System, that "uses a 95-gigahertz microwave
beam to rapidly heat skin and cause an unbearable burning sensation that will
send rioters fleeing from its path within five seconds" but won't cause physical
damage.
Available online at: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1038713591&Fmt=7&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD
Lombardo, Ingrid. Chemical Non-Lethal
Weapons -- Why the Pentagon Wants Them and Why Others Don't.
James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, June 8,
2007.
Available online at: http://cns.miis.edu/search97cgi/s97_cgi?action=View&VdkVgwKey=../../cnsweb/htdocs/pubs/week/070608.htm
Maier, Andrew and others. Human
Effectiveness and Risk Characterization of the Electromuscular Incapacitation
Device: A Limited Analysis of the TASER, Part 1, Technical
Report. Brooks City-Base, TX, Air Force Research Lab, Human
Effectiveness Directorate, Radiofrequency Radiation Branch, March 2005.
102 p.
Available online at: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA434044
Maier, Andrew and others. Human
Effectiveness and Risk Characterization of the Electromuscular Incapacitation
Device: A Limited Analysis of the TASER, Part 2,
Appendices. Brooks City-Base, TX, Air Force Research Lab, Human
Effectiveness Directorate, Radiofrequency Radiation Branch, March 2005. 31
p.
Available online at: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA434298
McPhee, A. T. Stink Bomb.
Current Science 88:10-11 January 17, 2003.
"Government
officials think a universal malodor—Stench Soup—might prove effective as a
nonlethal weapon. It might also be a valuable crime-fighting tool or even
be used one day as a protective barrier on ski slopes".
Available
online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=8918658&site=ehost-live
Moreno, Jonathan D. Medical Ethics and
Non-Lethal Weapons. American Journal of Bioethics
4:W1-W2 Fall 2004.
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=15508577&site=ehost-live
Munavalli, Shekar and others.
Chemistry, Biochemistry, Pharmacology, and Toxicology of CS and
Synthesis of Its Novel Analogs. Abingdon, MD, Science
Applications International Corp, October 2007. 29 p.
Available
online at: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA474594
"Chlorobenzylidene
malononitrile (CS) is the most popularly used non-lethal agent in riot control
situations and military exercises. With a view to improve its properties
and enhance its effectiveness, 15 new CS analogs incorporating fluorine and
fluorine-containing groups have been synthesized using microwave irradiation and
novel catalysts."--Abstract from publication.
No Longer Science Fiction: Less than Lethal
and Directed Energy Weapons. Defense Update
No.1:1+ 2005.
Available online at: http://www.defense-update.com/features/du-1-05/feature-NLW.htm
Non-Lethal Weapons.
Available online at: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/non-lethal.htm
Links to fact sheets on non-lethal weapons.
Nonlethal Weapons and Capabilities. Council on Foreign Relations Press, February 2004. 63 p.
Available online at: http://www.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/Nonlethal_TF.pdf
Report of an Independent Task Force sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations.
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and Research and
Technology Organisation. The Human Effects of Non-Lethal
Technologies. August 2006.
Available online at:
http://ftp.rta.nato.int/public//PubFullText/RTO/TR/RTO-TR-HFM-073/$$TR-HFM-073-ALL.pdf
Pan, Esther. Defense: Non-lethal
Weapons. Council on Foreign Relations, February 27,
2004.
Available online at: http://www.cfr.org/publication/7750/defense.html?breadcrumb=%2Fissue%2F61%2Fnonlethal_weapons
Background
information on non-lethal weapons.
Picatinny: Products and Services --
Non-Lethal Capabilities.
Available online at: http://www.pica.army.mil/PicatinnyPublic/products_services/products17.asp
Raytheon Delivers Non-lethal Sheriff Active Denial
System. Microwave Journal 48:40 November
2005.
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=18979083&site=ehost-live
Report of the Fourth International Law
Enforcement Forum for Minimal Force Options and Less-Lethal
Technologies. Institute for Non-Lethal Defense Technologies,
December 2005.
Available online at: http://nldt2.arl.psu.edu/documents/2005_ILEF_Report_FINAL.pdf
Team Investigates Active DenialSystem for
Security Applications. June 20, 2005.
Available online
at: http://www.sandia.gov/news-center/news-releases/2005/def-nonprolif-sec/active-denial.html
United States. Air Force.
Personnel Halting and Stimulation Response
(PHaSR).
Available online at: http://www.kirtland.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-070404-043.pdf
Fact
Sheet.
United States. Army. Marine Corps.
Navy. Air Force. NLW: Multi-Service Tactics,
Techniques, and Procedures for the Tactical Employment of Nonlethal Weapons, FM
3-22.40, MCWP 3-15.8, NTTP 3-007.3.2, AFTTP(I) 3-2.45. October
2007.
Available online at: https://wwwmil.alsa.mil/documents/current/NLW%20-%20Oct%202007.pdf
United States. Department of Defense.
Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program Website.
Available
online at: https://www.jnlwp.com/
Official
site for the "Department of Defense's central resource for information on
non-lethal weapons."--Abstract from Web site. Site offers information on
the program's purpose, organizational structure, training and education courses,
factsheets, news articles, publications, etc.
United States. Department of Defense.
Policy for Non-Lethal Weapons. July 9,
1996.
Available online at: http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/300003p.pdf
Department
of Defense Directive Number 3000.3, certified current as of November 21,
2003.
United States. Department of Defense.
Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program. Acoustic Hailing Devices
(AHD.
Available online at: https://www.jnlwp.com/misc/fact_sheets/AHD%201%20Feb%2008.pdf
Fact
Sheet.
United States. Department of Defense.
Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program. Active Denial System
(ADS).
Available online at: https://www.jnlwp.com/misc/fact_sheets/ADS%20Fact%20Sheet%20-%2013%20Feb%2008%20New%20Mast%20-%20FINAL.pdf
Fact
Sheet.
United States. Department of Defense.
Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program. Airburst Non-Lethal Munition
(ANLM).
Available online at: https://www.jnlwp.com/misc/fact_sheets/ANLM%201%20Feb%2008.pdf
Fact
Sheet.
United States. Department of Defense.
Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program. Escalation of Force
Options: DoD Non-Lethal Weapons Program 2007. Washington,
2007. 24 p.
Available online at: https://www.jnlwp.com/misc/publications/AR2007.pdf
Program's
annual report for 2007 (latest available).
United States. Department of Defense.
Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program. Improved Flash Bang Grenade
(IFBG).
Available online at: https://www.jnlwp.com/misc/fact_sheets/IFBG%201%20Feb%2008.pdf
Fact
Sheet.
United States. Department of Defense.
Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program. Individual Serviceman Non-Lethal
System (ISNLS).
Available online at: https://www.jnlwp.com/misc/fact_sheets/ISNLS%20Oct%2006.pdf
Fact
Sheet.
United States. Department of Defense.
Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program. Joint Integration
Program.
Available online at: https://www.jnlwp.com/misc/fact_sheets/JIP%20Oct%2006.pdf
Fact
Sheet.
United States. Department of Defense.
Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program. Joint Non-Lethal Warning
Munition (JNLWM).
Available online at: https://www.jnlwp.com/misc/fact_sheets/JNLWM%20Oct%2006.pdf
Fact
Sheet.
United States. Department of Defense.
Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program. Mission Payload Module-Non
Lethal Weapon System (MPM - NLWS).
Available online
at: https://www.jnlwp.com/misc/fact_sheets/MPM%20Oct06.pdf
Fact
Sheet.
United States. Department of Defense.
Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program. Mk19 Short Range Non-Lethal
Munition (NLM).
Available online at: https://www.jnlwp.com/misc/fact_sheets/MK19Fact%20Sheet30APR07FINAL.pdf
Fact
Sheet.
United States. Department of Defense.
Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program. Non-Lethal Human
Effects.
Available online at: https://www.jnlwp.com/misc/fact_sheets/Fact%20Sheet_NL%20Human%20Effects_Mast%20Changed%2026%20Feb%2008.pdf
Fact
Sheet.
United States. Department of Defense.
Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program. Non-Lethal Optical
Distractors.
Available online at: https://www.jnlwp.com/misc/fact_sheets/NL%20Optical%20Distractor%2025%20OCT%202006.pdf
Fact
Sheet.
United States. Department of Defense.
Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program. Vehicle Lightweight Arresting
Device (VLAD).
Available online at: https://www.jnlwp.com/misc/fact_sheets/VLAD%20Oct%202006.pdf
Fact
Sheet.
United States. Department of Justice.
Office of Justice Programs. National Institute of Justice.
The Effectiveness and Safety of Pepper Spray. April
2003.
Available online at: http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/195739.pdf
USA: Amnesty International's Continuing Concerns about Taser Use. Amnesty International, March 28, 2006. 51 p.
Available online at: http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/AMR51/030/2006/en/dom-AMR510302006en.pdf
Wong, Yuna Huh. Ignoring the Innocent: Non-combatants in Urban Operations and in Military Models and Simulations. Pardee Rand Graduate School, March 2006. 196 p.
Available online at: http://www.rand.org/pubs/rgs_dissertations/2006/RAND_RGSD201.pdf
Internet Resources (Student Research)
Bowe, Joseph. Phases III and IV:
A Dangerous Overlap. Newport, RI, Naval War College, Joint
Military Operations Department, May 17, 2005. 27 p.
Available
online at: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA463394
Nisbett, Donald A. Airpower's
Emasculation?: Non-Lethal Weapons in Joint Urban
Operations. Newport, RI, Naval War College, 2005. 26
p.
Available online at: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA464450
Partin, Eric S. It Is Called a Weapon
for a Reason: The Need for Non-Lethal Weapon Specific Rules of
Engagement. Newport, RI, Naval War College, Joint Military
Operations Department, May 10, 2007. 22 p.
Available online
at: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA470781
Scott, Richard L. Conflict Without
Casualties: Non-Lethal Weapons in Irregular Warfare.
Monterey, CA, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2007. 93 p.
(Thesis, M.A.).
Available online at: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA474466
Shivery, Charles J. The Ever-Changing
Context of War and Power Toward the Rubicon. Carlisle Barracks,
PA, U.S. Army War College, 2007. 20 p.
Available online
at: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA469605
Voetberg, Jeffrey W. Non-Lethal
Weapons: Considerations for the Joint Force Commander.
Newport, RI, Naval War College, Joint Military Operations Department, May 10,
2007. 25 p.
Available online at: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA470730
Wittwer, Larry N. An Exploration of
Equipping a Future Force Warrior Small Combat Unit with Non-Lethal
Weapons. Monterey, CA, Naval Postgraduate School, June 1,
2006. 134 p. (Thesis, M.S.).
Available online at:
http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA457706
Alexander, John B. Future War:
Non-Lethal Weapons in Twenty-First-Century Warfare. 1st ed.
New York, St. Martin's Press, 1999. 254 p.
"Explains exactly how
non-lethal electromagnetic and pulsed-power weapons, the laser and tazer,
chemical systems, computer viruses, ultrasound and infrasound, and even
biological entities will be used to stop enemies."--Abstract from
publication.
Book call no.: 355.8 A376f
Alexander, John B. Winning the
War: Advanced Weapons, Strategies, and Concepts for the Post-9/11
World. 1st ed. New York, Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's
Press, 2003. 304 p.
Book call no.: 355.020973
A376w
Allison, Graham T. and others.
Nonlethal Weapons and Capabilities: Report of an Independent Task
Force Sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations. New York,
Council on Foreign Relations Press, February 2004. 63 p.
Also available
online at: http://www.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/Nonlethal_TF.pdf
Book
call no.: 355.82 N813
Beason, Doug. The E-Bomb: How
America's New Directed Energy Weapons Will Change the Way Future Wars Will Be
Fought. 1st Da Capo Press ed. Cambridge, MA, Da Capo Press,
2005. 256 p.
Book call no.: 358.39
B368e
The Future of Non-Lethal Weapons:
Technologies, Operations, Ethics and Law, edited by Nick Lewer.
Portland, OR, Frank Cass, 2002. 193 p.
Eleven essays.
Book
call no.: 623.4 F996
Giri, D. V. High-Power Electromagnetic
Radiators: Nonlethal Weapons and Other Applications.
Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2004. 198 p.
"Beginning with a
brief survey of the history of warfare, D. V. Giri systematically examines
various nonlethal weapons technologies, emphasizing those based on
electromagnetics."--Abstract from publication.
Book call no.:
623.043 G525h
Kenny, John M. Crowd Behavior, Crowd
Control, and the Use of Non-Lethal Weapons. University Park, PA,
Institute for Non-Lethal Technologies, Applied Research Laboratory, 2001.
42 p.
Also available online at: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA446472
Book
call no.: 363.323 C953
Koplow, David A. Non-Lethal
Weapons: The Law and Policy of Revolutionary Technologies for the Military
and Law Enforcement. New York, Cambridge University Press,
2006. 194 p.
"Explores the emerging world of non-lethal weapons by
examining a series of case studies - recent real-world scenarios from five
confrontations around the world in which the availability of a modern arsenal
might have made a difference."--Abstract from publication.
Book call
no.: 363.232 K83n
Lewer, Nick and Schofield, Steven.
Non-Lethal Weapons--a Fatal Attraction?: Military Strategies and
Technologies for 21st-Century Conflict. Atlantic Highlands, NJ,
Zed Books, 1997. 158 p.
"Tells us what the new weapons are, how they
work, and the burgeoning body of policy and doctrine relating to their
deployment."--Abstract from publication.
Book call no.:
355.0215 L671n
Mandel, Robert. Security, Strategy, and
the Quest for Bloodless War. Boulder, CO, Lynne Rienner,
2004. 209 p.
Book call no.: 355.033573
M271s
Nutley, Erik L. Non-Lethal
Weapons: Setting Our Phasers on Stun? Potential Strategic Blessings
and Curses of Non-Lethal Weapons on the Battlefield. Maxwell AFB,
AL, Air War College, Center for Strategy and Technology, 2003. 64 p.
(Occasional Paper No. 34)
Also available online at: http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/cst/csat34.pdf
Book
call no.: 355.0215 N976n
Rappert, Brian. Non-Lethal Weapons as
Legitimizing Forces?: Technology, Politics, and the Management of
Conflict. Portland, OR, Frank Cass, 2003. 286
p.
Book call no.: 355.8 R221n
Royal United Services Institute for Defence and
Security Studies. Rusi Defence Systems. London,
Method Publishing, Spring 2005.
See pp 82-83, "Non-Lethal: Worse than
Lethal?" by Peter Almond.
Also available online at: http://www.rusi.org/downloads/assets/Almond.pdf
Book
call no.: 355.8 W927
Siniscalchi, Joseph. Non-Lethal
Technologies: Implications for Military Strategy. Maxwell
AFB, AL, Air War College, Center for Strategy and Technology, 1998. 48
p. (Occasional Paper No. 3)
Also available online at: http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/cst/occppr03.htm
Book
call no.: 355.0215 S617n
United States. National Research Council.
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences and others. An
Assessment of Non-Lethal Weapons Science and Technology.
Washington, National Academies Press, 2003. 179 p.
Also available
online at: http://www.nap.edu/books/0309082889/html
Book
call no.: 355.82 A534
Warfare in the 21st Century, edited
by Jeremy K. Brown. New York, H.W. Wilson, 2003. 187 p.
See pp
119-134, Non-lethal Weapons.
Book call no.: 808.5 R332 v.75
no.3
Whitbred, George N. T. Offensive Use of
Chemical Technologies by US Special Operations Forces in the Global War on
Terrorism: The Nonlethal Option. Maxwell AFB, AL, Air War
College, 2006. 41 p. (Maxwell Paper No. 37)
Also available online
at: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA455470
Book
call no.: 358.3482 W579o
Grieger, Dion. An Overview of Crowd
Control Theory and Considerations for the Employment of Non-Lethal
Weapons. Edinburgh South Australia, Systems Sciences Laboratory,
Defence Science and Technology Organisation, August 2003. 43
p.
Doc. call no.: M-U 44192-1 no.0373
United States. Congress. House.
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on
Aviation. Aviation Security: Further Study of Safety and
Effectiveness and Better Management Controls Needed if Air Carriers Resume
Interest in Deploying Less-than-Lethal Weapons. Washington, GAO,
2006. 28 p.
Also available online at: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS78852
Doc.
call no.: M-U 41026-173 no.06-475
United States. Joint Forces Command.
Joint Warfighting Center. Doctrinal Implications of Low Collateral
Damage Capabilities. Suffolk, VA, Joint Forces Command, Joint
Warfighting Center, January 27, 2003. 1 v. (Joint Doctrine Series
Pamphlet 2)
Also available online at: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA423986
Doc.
call no.: M-U 44176-7 no.2
Documents (Student Research)
Bobb, Justin L. Non-Lethal
Weaponry: Applications to AC-130 Gunship. Maxwell AFB, AL,
Air Command and Staff College, 2002. 30 p.
Also available online
at: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA420661
Doc.
call no.: M-U 43122 B6631n
Elder, R. Wyn. The Role of Non-Lethal
Airpower in Future Peace Operations: Beyond Bombs on
Target. Maxwell AFB, AL, Air Command and Staff College,
2003. 32 p.
Also available online at: https://research.maxwell.af.mil/papers/ay2003/acsc/03-1413.pdf
Doc.
call no.: M-U 43122 E373r
Hall, David B. Transforming How We
Fight Through Effects Based Operations & Non-Lethal
Capabilities. Newport, RI, Naval War College, 2004. 33
p.
Also available online at: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA426021
Doc.
call no.: M-U 41662 H175t
Hamilton, Charles A. Policy
Implications of Non-Lethal Weapons. Carlisle Barracks, PA, U.S.
Army War College, 2002. 23 p.
Also available online at: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA404218
Doc.
call no.: M-U 39080-537 H217p
Harsha, Travis C. Less Lethal
Weapons: Policing Innovation. Maxwell AFB, AL, Air Command
and Staff College, 2005. 30 p.
Doc. call no.: M-U 43122
H3241L
Marsh, James. Counterinsurgency, the
Nonlethal Imperative and Airpower's Role. Maxwell AFB, AL, Air
War College, 2007. 36 p.
Also available online at: https://research.au.af.mil/papers/ay2007/awc/Marsh.pdf
Doc.
call no.: M-U 43117 M365c
Pittman, Lee T. The Limited Utility of
Non-Lethal Weapons in Decisive Combat: War Still Means Fighting and
Fighting Still Means Killing. Newport, RI, Naval War College,
2005. 21 p.
Also available online at: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA463625
Doc.
call no.: M-U 41662 P689L
Sickinger, Lisa R. Effectiveness of
Non-Lethal Capabilities in a Maritime Environment. Monterey, CA,
Naval Postgraduate School, 2006. 82 p. (Thesis, M.S.)
Also
available online at: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA457271
Doc.
call no.: M-U 42525 S566e
Underhill, Jeffrey L. Are the
Department of Defense Non-Lethal Weapon Capabilities Adequate for the 21st
Century? Carlisle Barracks, PA, U.S. Army War College,
2006. 16 p. (USAWC Strategy Research Project)
Also available
online at: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA448633
Doc.
call no.: M-U 39080-537 U55a
Weilacher, Lester A. Non-lethal
Chemical Weapons. Maxwell AFB, AL, Air Command and Staff College,
2003. 15 p.
Also available online at: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA476393
Doc.
call no.: M-U 43122 W422n
White, Stephen P. Non-Lethal
Weapons. Carlisle Barracks, PA, U.S. Army War College,
2005. 34 p.
Doc. call no.: M-U 39080-537
W5881n
Alexander, John B. Non-lethal Weapons to
Gain Relevancy in Future Conflicts. National Defense
86:30-31 March 2002.
Also available online at: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=115191095&Fmt=7&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD
Alexander, John B. and Heal, Charles.
Non-Lethal and Hyper-Lethal Weaponry. Small Wars &
Insurgencies 13:121-132 Summer 2002.
Also available online at:
http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=0959-2318&volume=13&issue=2&spage=121
and at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09592310208559186.
Annati, Massimo. Non-Lethal Weapons
Revisited. Military Technology 31:82-87 2007.
Also
available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=24490959&site=ehost-live&custid=airuniv
Annati, Massimo. Non-Lethal Weapons:
Their Application in the Maritime World. Naval Forces
27:45-53 2006.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mth&AN=20544084&site=ehost-live&custid=airuniv
Annati, Massimo and Bonsignore, Ezio.
Non-Lethal Weapons: Possibilities, Programmes, Perspectives and
Problems. Military Technology 27:44-50 July
2003.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=10594492&site=ehost-live&custid=airuniv
Aragon, Arthur J. Nonlethal Capabilities of
the Future. Military Police PB 19-03-1:16-18 April
2003.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mth&AN=9910143&site=ehost-live&custid=airuniv
Army-Developed Non-Lethal Kit Shipped to Troops in
Iraq, Afghanistan. Defense Daily 228:1 October 20,
2005.
Also available online at: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=914334891&Fmt=7&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD
Auer, Catherine. Killer
'Non-Lethals'. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
50:42-43 January-February 2003.
Examines the Russian special forces' use of
chemical gas to incapacitate Chechen rebels that held hostage the audience of a
Moscow theater on October 26, 2002; Reaction of the U.S. to the incident;
Information on the assessment by the National Academy of Sciences on non-lethal
weapons.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=8794789&site=ehost-live&custid=airuniv
Bedard, E. R. Nonlethal Capabilities:
Realizing the Opportunities. Defense Horizons 9:1
March 2002.
Also available online at: http://permanent.access.gpo.gov/websites/nduedu/www.ndu.edu/inss/DefHor/dh9/dh09.pdf
Ben-David, Alon. New Non-lethal Weapon Shouts a Warning to Rioters. Jane's Defence Weekly 41:14 October 13, 2004.
Bishop, Shelley. Alternative
Arsenal. Military Officer 1:54-60 April
2003.
Discusses the non-lethal weapons concept, the lessons from Somalia, the
establishment of the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate, and provides a
concise chart listing six categories of non-lethal weapons.
Also available
online at: http://www.moaa.org/Magazine/April2003/f_alternative.asp
Black, Kenneth L. Future Options for
Nonlethal Artillery. Field Artillery March-April:4-9
2003.
Describes potential nonlethal technologies for artillery delivery which
include the delivery of electrically conductive carbon fibers, thermobaric
weapons, and engine disruption.
Also available online at: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=348097241&sid=1&Fmt=4&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD
Boyd, Kerry. U.S. Grapples with Use of
Nonlethal Agents. Arms Control Today 33:44 April
2003.
Discusses the dilemma of Pentagon officials on whether or not to use
nonlethal chemical weapons as an effective riot control agent and whether or not
their use could undermine compliance to the Chemical Weapons Convention.
Also
available online at: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=370677531&sid=1&Fmt=3&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD
Brooks, Michael. Non-lethal Chemical
Weapons. New Scientist 196:50-53 October 20,
2007.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=27439211&site=ehost-live&custid=airuniv
Bruno, Michael. Stunned
Progression. Aviation Week & Space Technology
166:55-56 June 25, 2007.
Discusses the U.S. Department of Defense's
difficulties in moving forward its plan to develop nonlethal weapon
technologies. Funding gets denied because proponents have not shown
whether the weapons had relevance or were worth the cost. The ADS system
is discussed.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=25811157&site=ehost-live&custid=airuniv
Come Fry with Me.
Economist 366:68-69 February 1, 2003.
Reviews the possible
use of electromagnetic energy weapons to destroy electronic systems and
temporarily incapacitate people.
Also available online at: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=282258661&sid=2&Fmt=3&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD
Controlling Individuals. Jane's
Defence Weekly 40:9 November 12, 2003.
"Taser International's X26
taser has attracted the interest of DoD as a non-lethal means to control
individuals in close proximity."--Abstract from publication.
Crowd Control. Jane's Defence
Weekly 40:9 November 12, 2003.
"Raytheon's Active Denial System will
provide troops in the field with the ability to deny individuals or crowds
access to an area from a standoff distance beyond the range of most small-arms
fire."--Abstract from publication.
The Danger of "Nonlethal" Weapons.
Arms Control Today 34:8-9 July-August 2004.
Also available
online at: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdlink?did=681199181&Fmt=7&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD
Deptula, David A. Effects-Based
Operations. Air & Space Power Journal 20:4-5
Spring 2006.
Also available online at: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1008568681&Fmt=7&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD
Duncan, James C. A Primer on the Employment of Non-Lethal Weapons. Naval Law Review 45:1-56 1998.
Dupont, Daniel G. Storm Before the
Calm. Scientific American 288:17 February
2003.
Questions whether knockout gases can truly be non-lethal.
Also
available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mth&AN=8877549&site=ehost-live&custid=airuniv
Erwin, Sandra I. Aftereffect.
National Defense 92:16 January 2008.
Reviews the non-lethal
weapons concept and the need to study the long-term consequences of their
employment.
Also available online at: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1431684511&Fmt=7&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD
Eshel, David. Non-Lethal Weapons in Counter-Insurgency Warfare. Asia-Pacific Defence Reporter 31:46,48 June 2005.
Fein, Geoff S. Non-Lethal Weapons Find Their
Niche in Urban Combat. National Defense 88:14-17
March 2004.
Also available online at: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=580818611&sid=4&Fmt=4&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD
Fenton, George P. Diffusing Escalation of
Force. Marine Corps Gazette 91:10 December
2007.
Defusing escalation of force in urban settings using neuromuscular
disruption (NMI) weapons.
Also available online at: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1390867911&Fmt=7&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD
Floroff, Stephen G. Engineering the
Nonlethal Artillery Projectile. Field Artillery
March-April:10-12 2003.
Also available online at: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=348102031&sid=1&Fmt=4&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD
The Future of Crowd Control.
Economist 373:11 December 4, 2004.
Also available online
at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=15263149&site=ehost-live&custid=airuniv
Galvan, Jesse and Kang, Theo. The Future of
the Army Nonlethal Scalable Effects Center. Military
Police April:4-7 2006.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=20903591&site=ehost-live&custid=airuniv
Glenn, Russell W. Letting God Rest: Use of Nonlethal Weapons Protects the Innocent in Urban Areas. Armed Forces Journal 140:49-52 May 2003.
Gourley, Scott. Interview with Major General David P. Valcourt, U.S. Army Chief of Field Artillery. Jane's Defence Weekly 42:34 February 2, 2005.
Graham-Rowe, Duncan. Short Sharp Shock
Awaits Trespassers. New Scientist 178:12 April 26,
2003.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=9750194&site=ehost-live&custid=airuniv
Gregorac, Leopold. ADT/ADS -- Weapons of the
21st Century? Military Technology 28:40-44 May
2004.
Focuses on Active Denial Technology (ADT); Nature and functions of ADT
weapons; Advantages of ADT; Structure and status of the ADT program; Effects of
the weapons on human beings.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=13436608&site=ehost-live&custid=airuniv
Gross, Michael L. The Second Lebanon
War: The Question of Proportionality and the Prospect of Non-Lethal
Warfare. Journal of Military Ethics 7:1-22 January
2008.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=31730310&site=ehost-live&custid=airuniv
Hambling, David. Non-lethal Beams Target the
Eyes. New Scientist 198:38-40 May 10, 2008.
Also
available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=32046581&site=ehost-live&custid=airuniv
Hambling, David. Stun Weapons to Target
Crowds. New Scientist 182:24 June 19, 2004.
Also
available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=13608745&site=ehost-live&custid=airuniv
Hay, N. J. Playing the 'Killing Fields'
Without Killing: To What Extent Should the RAF Incorporate the Use of
Non-Lethal Technologies? Royal Air Force Air Power
Review 9:48-71 Spring 2006.
Also available online at: https://cms.raf.mod.uk/rafcms/mediafiles/2BC43F33_1143_EC82_2E65D2BB483EB51B.pdf
Heines, Vivienne. Shoot to...Disable? Nonlethal Weapon Offers Flexibility, Accuracy. Armed Forces Journal 141:23-24 July 2004.
"The latest weapon in the war against smuggling and terrorism is a nonlethal round that can be fired from a 76mm naval gun to disable suspicious boats without endangering their crew."--Abstract from publication.
Also available online at: www.infoweb.newsbank.com
Hilburn, Matt. The Right Repellant:
Nonlethals Increasingly Are Used to Warn or Repel Crowds and Vehicles.
Sea Power 50:46-47 March 2007.
Also available online
at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mth&AN=24893453&site=ehost-live&custid=airuniv
Hodge, Nathan. US Commanders Seek Active Denial System for Use in Iraq. Jane's Defence Weekly 44:9 October 31, 2007.
Hodge, Nathan. US Force Protection. Jane's Defence Weekly 45:19-20+ January 9, 2008.
Hogan, Jenny. Don't Mention the Gun. New Scientist 181:19 January 17, 2004.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=12105121&site=ehost-live&custid=airuniv
Iraq Offers Breakthrough Opportunity for DE Weapons, Army Official Says. Defense Daily 225:1 January 24, 2005.
Also available online at: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=783317301&Fmt=7&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD
Jackson, Richard B. and Hutchison, Jason Ray.
Lasers Are Lawful as Non-Lethal Weapons. Army
Lawyer No. 399:12-18 August 2006.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=23010641&site=ehost-live&custid=airuniv
Jauchem, James R. and Cook, Michael C.
High-Intensity Acoustics for Military Nonlethal Applications: A Lack of
Useful Systems. Military Medicine 172:182-189
February 2007.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=24052515&site=ehost-live&custid=airuniv
Jean, Grace V. Coast Guard Searches for
Better Ways to Cope with Protestors. National Defense
92:46 January 2008.
Also available online at: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1431684611&Fmt=7&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD
Johnstone, Paul. Non and Less-than-Lethal Weapons. Asia-Pacific Defence Reporter 31:58-60 March 2005.
Kargl, Reinhard. Officer Gadget.
Popular Science 270:38-80 February 2007.
Discusses
technological innovations in the field of law enforcement currently being used
or reviewed by the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department.
Also available online
at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=23638765&site=ehost-live&custid=airuniv
Kemp, Ian. Power to Burn: The U.S.
Army Intends to Soon Deploy a Laser in the Non-Lethal Anti-Personnel
Role. Armada International 30:18+ June-July
2006.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mth&AN=21472600&site=ehost-live&custid=airuniv
Kennedy, Harold. U.S. Troops Find New Uses
for Non-lethal Weaponry. National Defense 86:26-27
March 2002.
Also available online at: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=115191093&Fmt=7&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD
Koch, Andrew. Directed-Energy Weapons Emerge from Secrecy. Jane's Defence Weekly 43:7 May 3, 2006.
Komarow, Steven. DoD Seeks Alternatives to 'Brute Force'. Defense News 20:18 September 5, 2005.
Kroll, Mark. W. Crafting the Perfect
Shock. IEEE Spectrum 44:27-30 December 2007.
"The
Taser Electronic Control Device, under microprocessor control, temporarily and
relatively harmlessly, immobilizes a suspect with a carefully engineered
electric signal that is specifically designed with human physiology in
mind."--Abstract from publication.
Kucera, Joshua. The Sheriff Will Show Up
Late in Iraq. Jane's Defence Weekly 42:10 July 13,
2005.
Discusses the Sheriff, a non-lethal directed energy weapon.
Kucera, Joshua. U.S. Forces Augment Non-Lethal Ability. Jane's Defence Weekly 41:10 February 4, 2004.
Kucera, Joshua. US Speeds Development of Non-lethal Weapons. Jane's Defence Weekly 42:8 April 13, 2005.
Lab, Timothy J. Army Nonlethal
Weapons/Scalable-Effects Program: A Think Piece.
Military Police PB 19-03-1:10-13 April 2003.
Also available
online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mth&AN=9909995&site=ehost-live&custid=airuniv
Lamb, Timothy J. Emerging Nonlethal Weapons
Technology and Strategic Policy Implications for 21st Century Warfare.
Military Police PB 19-03-1:6-9 April 2003.
Also available
online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=9909982&site=ehost-live&custid=airuniv
Levine, Susan D. and Montgomery, Noel.
Non-Lethal Weapon Human Effects. Program Manager
31:50-54 July-August 2002.
Also available online at: http://www.dau.mil/pubs/pm/pmpdf02/ja2.pdf
Looking for a Pulse. Aviation
Week & Space Technology 165:82 September 18, 2006.
Also
available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=22783482&site=ehost-live&custid=airuniv
Lowe, Christian. U.S. Seeks Better Nonlethal Weapons. Defense News 20:7 March 28, 2005.
LRAD on Steroids. Aviation Week
& Space Technology 163:40 September 12, 2005.
Short article on
the Long Range Acoustic Device.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=18330321&site=ehost-live&custid=airuniv
Magnuson, Stew. Directed Energy Weapons Face
Hurdles. National Defense 90:36-38 March
2006.
Also available online at: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1003548831&sid=2&Fmt=4&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD
Magnuson, Stew. High-Tech Weapons Mix
Targets Urban Hazards. National Defense 90:19-21 June
2006.
Also available online at: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1051278011&sid=3&Fmt=4&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD
Magnuson, Stew. Lasers Seen as Solution to
Checkpoint Safety. National Defense 90:22-24 February
2006.
Also available online at: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=996138831&sid=1&Fmt=4&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD
Magnuson, Stew. Non-Lethal Weapon May Spark
Controversy. National Defense 90:36 March
2006.
Discussion of the Active Denial System, a non-lethal weapon that
employs microwave millimeter technology to make human targets recoil from attack
by causing debilitating pain.
Also available online at: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1003549271&Fmt=7&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD
Magnuson, Stew. Non-Lethal Weapon Readied
for Battlefield. National Defense 90:18-19 January
2006.
Discusses the Active Denial System.
Also available online at:
http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=966514551&sid=2&Fmt=4&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD
Mandel, Robert. Nonlethal Weaponry and
Post-Cold War Deterrence. Armed Forces & Society
30:511-537 Summer 2004.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mth&AN=15198783&site=ehost-live&custid=airuniv
Marks, Paul. A Lethal Imperative.
New Scientist 188:20 December 17, 2005.
Also available
online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=19304741&site=ehost-live&custid=airuniv
Marshall, Jessica. A Harmless Shock - if
You're Healthy. New Scientist 195:6 September
29-October 5, 2007.
Reviews safety concerns in using Tasers.
Also
available online at: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1361006851&Fmt=7&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD
Matthews, William. New Tools.
National Guard 61:36 October 2007.
Also available online
at: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1407032701&Fmt=7&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD
Mayer, Chris. Nonlethal Weapons and
Noncombatant Immunity: Is it Permissible to Target
Noncombatants? Journal of Military Ethics 6:221-231
September 2007.
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McKenna, Ted. Flash in the Plan:
Directed-energy Weapons Remain More Experimental than Available.
Journal of Electronic Defense 26:46-52 May 2003.
Also
available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mth&AN=9723792&site=ehost-live&custid=airuniv
Mesler, Bill. The Pentagon's 'Nonlethal'
Gas. The Nation 276:19-22 February 17, 2003.
Also
available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=9036831&site=ehost-live&custid=airuniv
Mihm, Stephen. The Quest for Non Killer
App. New York Times Magazine, pp 38-43, July 25,
2004.
Also available online at: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=668902791&sid=2&Fmt=6&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD
Morris, Janet and others. Nothing Is So
Strong as Gentleness. U.S. Naval Institute
Proceedings 130:52-55 July 2004.
Discusses the need for non-lethal
weapons.
Also available online at: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=661264791&Fmt=7&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD
No Such Thing as a Non-Lethal Weapon.
New Scientist 185:3 March 5, 2005.
Short article on the
dangers of Pulsed Energy Projectiles (PEPs) designed to maximize pain through
the body's nerve cell receptors.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=16373120&site=ehost-live&custid=airuniv
Nonlethal Weapons Protect the Force.
Military Police PB 19-03-1:33-40 April 2003.
Pictures of
nonlethal weapons with descriptions.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mth&AN=9910344&site=ehost-live&custid=airuniv
Pappalardo, Joe. Homeland Defense Plan
Favors Non-Lethal Technology. National Defense
89:49-51 June 2005.
Also available online at: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=875056611&sid=1&Fmt=4&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD
Porges, Seth. A Shock to the
System. PC Magazine 26:17-18 March 20,
2007.
Focuses on whether or not Tasers are safe to use.
Also available
online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=24207049&site=ehost-live&custid=airuniv
Prison of the Web. Jane's
Defence Weekly 40:9 November 12, 2003.
"Included in the myriad of
non-lethal weapons concepts that DoD is exploring is using spider silk for
entanglement devices."--Abstract from publication.
Rappert, Brian. A Framework for the
Assessment of Non-lethal Weapons. Medicine, Conflict and
Survival 20:35-54 2004.
Also available online at: http://www.informaworld.com/10.1080/13623690412331302284
Rappert, Brian. Shock Tactics.
New Scientist 177:34-37 February 15, 2003.
Focuses on the
Advanced Taser and its medical effects.
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Ripley, Tim. USAF Receives Its Second Active
Denial System. Jane's Defence Weekly 44:11 September
19, 2007.
"Reports on Raytheon's delivery of a second non-lethal Active
Denial System to the U.S. Air Force; The system emits a focused beam of
millimeter-wave energy that produces an intolerable heating
sensation."--Abstract from publication.
Rivers, Brendan P. and Sherman, Kenneth B.
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Schloeffel, Eric. Air Force Tests Nonlethal
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2007.
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Schloeffel, Eric. Moody Airmen Test New,
Nonlethal Method of Repelling Enemy. Defense &
AT-L 36:61-62 May-June 2007.
Evaluation and testing of the Active
Denial System.
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Sententia, Wyre. Your Mind Is a
Target: Weaponizing Psychoactive Drugs.
Humanist 63:43-44 January-February 2003.
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Shupe, Paul K. Nonlethal Force and Rules of
Engagement. Military Police PB 19-03-1:43-48 April
2003.
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Siegel, Jonas. Shoot to Not Kill.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 62:9 January-February
2006.
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Sirak, Michael. US Air Force, Navy Eye Non-lethal Weapon. Jane's Defence Weekly 41:8 October 27, 2004.
Sirak, Michael. US Looks to Build on
Non-lethal Weapon Support. Jane's Defence Weekly 40:9
November 12, 2003.
"DoD is moving to create greater advocacy and funding
support for non-lethal capabilities."--Abstract from publication.
Sirak, Michael and Burger, Kim. The Promise and the Peril of Non-Lethal Weapons. Jane's Defence Weekly 40:23 August 6, 2003.
Stebbins, Michael. Agents of
Suspicion. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 63:26
May-June 2007.
Author believes there should be a more thorough discussion as
to whether incapcitating chemical weapons are justified.
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Sweetman, Bill. High-Power Microwave Weapons. Jane's Defence Weekly 43:22-24+ August 30, 2006.
Tchou, Patrick. Find the Edge of Heart
Safety. IEEE Spectrum 44:30-31 December
2007.
"Author investigates whether Taser shocks can cause serious damage to a
heart's normal function."--Abstract from publication.
Tiron, Roxana. Stopping Intruders Can be a
Sticky Mess. National Defense 86:28 March
2002.
The Mobility Denial System uses a sticky gel to stop a vehicle or to
prevent troublemakers from entering a building..
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Tiron, Roxana. Unconventional Weapons Can
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Upson, Sandra. The Taser Gun.
IEEE Spectrum 44:26-27 December 2007.
"An electroshock
weapon used by police departments worldwide, is no stranger to bad
press."--Abstract from publication.
Vaisman, Daria. Sounding Off.
Foreign Policy No. 158:100 January-February 2007.
Luxury
cruise liners are using a Long-Rang Acoustic Device (LRAD) to ward off pirates
in the dangerous waters off the coasts of Nigeria and Somalia.
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Wagner, Breanne. Directed Energy: Low
Power Weapons on the Rise. National Defense 92:22-23
February 2008.
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Weinberger, Sharon and Butler, Amy. A Sea of
Pain. Aviation Week & Space Technology 164:54
April 3, 2006.
The Active Denial System.
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Wheelis, Mark. "Nonlethal" Chemical
Weapons: A Faustian Bargain. Issues in Science and
Technology 19:74-78 Spring 2003.
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Wilkinson, Alec. Non-Lethal Force.
New Yorker 64:26-33 June 6, 2008.
Discusses the use of non-lethal
weapons by the U.S. police and military personnel; Profiles non-lethal weapons
expert Charles "Sid" Heal; Describes several weapons including Tasers, the
Active Denial System, and the Tiger Light pepper spray.
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Wollman, Gerd. Directed Energy
Weapons: Fact or Fiction? Military Technology
27:80-85 April 2003.
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Yagrich, Kenneth P. Nonlethal Weapons
Requirements Definition: A Difficult Task Requires a True Team
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2003.
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