Pentagon Working on "Human Fear" Weapons 310
An anonymous reader writes "Animals use pheromones to attract each other for sex, and warn each other of danger. Now, Wired reports, military researchers are working to harness the 'human fear' pheromone to create a scent of terror. The pheromone could lead to smell-based terrorist sensors, and new weapons that rely on 'contagious' stress."
Re:What could happen (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Big fans eh? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Why Fear? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Bio warfare? (Score:5, Informative)
It does count as chemical warfare, though.
Re:What could happen (Score:5, Informative)
They did some testing and a army team facing a fight when told the enemy all has body armor piercing ammunition the dynamics of the team changed drastically and started to show signs of fear which would reduce their effectiveness as they would be much more cautious in their attack.
Fear weapons have been used forever, they are called spreading rumors or false information that keeps your enemy at bay. The Russians did it to the United states for nearly 50 years in the cold war. They made it look and sound like they had a crapload more weapons and bigger meaner ones than they really did. It scared the shit out of the USA to the point where we even had the populace shaking in their boots and afraid of the USSR.
Re:Bio warfare? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:That quote about fear (Score:3, Informative)
spiders, snakes, werewolves, sharks, dying alone, zombies, clowns, heights, big dogs, robots with human brains, Johnson's wife, and... fear itself.
And on top of that I get modded up "interesting "
Oh, Well....