Air Force Chief Says Beta Test Weapons on US Citizens

Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne on new non-lethal weapons such as the Active Denial System, which fires ultra-painful bursts of microwave energy: If we’re not willing to use it here against our fellow citizens, then we should not be willing to use it in a wartime situation. (Because) if I hit somebody with a nonlethal weapon and they claim that it injured them in a way that was not intended, I think that I would be vilified in the world press — via Boing Boing