The World's Spookiest Weapons

Cyborg animals, psychotropics and flying lasers are just some of the terrifying weapons government labs have cooked up over the years

Terrifying Weapons: Mushroom cloud from the 1970 French Polynesian Licorne test.

Atom bombs are just the beginning. In the last half-century, the greatest military minds on Earth have developed an arsenal of weapons to make mutually assured destruction seem tame.

Whether these masterpieces of destruction come from miles above Earth or millimeters below the skin, they have one thing in common: they're spooky as hell.

Can turning animals into cyborgs ever end well? Should lasers really be strapped to planes? Is dispersing humans with the worst smell ever created a better alternative to doing it by burning their skin? You be the judge. Launch our gallery of the world's spookiest weapons—some decades away and others already implemented—and marvel over what humans can create when they work apart.

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Scary as hell.

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Yes, Scary as hell.

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yo i heard of a weapon before that could trigger earth quakes, why wouldnt that be in here?

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I have also heard of one that caused earth quakes but probably not the same as what you are talking about. This was a bomb and bunker buster of sorts. It was a 22,000lb known as "The Grand Slam" designed by a Mr. Willis ,I believe, it was for the UK's Royal Air Force in World War II. The reason it was not widely used I believe is because it was so large and only a few airplanes could carry it. Also as we all know a little later it would be over shadowed by the atomic bombs the US dropped on Hiroshima and Nagaski to end the war and when a bomb is so serious it can end a war that is note worthy. Altho "The Grand Slam" was a large bomb the only thing it really did was burrow deeply in the ground, explode and cause earth quake like trimmers that would bring down most builds.

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His name was Barnes Wallis. I was close but thought I would correct it after looking it up to be sure.

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Read the e-book on www.farviewu.biz Its FREE.

It was written in 1991 and runs in a DOS box under windows.

Question: Has AIDS been spread around the world by 2 guys
living in Redwood City, California?

Are these guys working on something even worse?

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How individual citizens got their vote back

In 2008 a massive movement will be started by individuals
who are fed up with the election process that exists in
the United States.

This is what will happen:

The citizens in this group will start mailing out envelopes
filled with small amounts of various powdered substances
normally found around the house.

These envelopes will be sent to the addresses available on
the Internet for all the candidates that the persons
are NOT in favor of.

This is why:

In 1991 an engineer, working in Boca Raton, Florida
wrote an e-book about this different form of terrorist
warfare (available Free on web site www.farviewu.biz).

Ten years later, just after the 9-11 event another event
occurred (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks).

Based on this post 9-11 their envelopes will close up the
candidates offices and possibly even the post office.
It may even shut down the 2008 election.

The individuals involved in the act will spend about
50 cents for each envelope mailed out. As long as they are
careful to not leave finger prints on/in the envelopes or
stamps and use bogus return addresses they will not be traceable.

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If these are the weapons of today, how long will it be before science fiction becomes real? It's scary if you think about it. In science fiction, people can control other peoples brains. How is this so much different than what people can do a moth or a cochroach?

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Hey I heard about living tissue over AI assassin known as a Terminator, how did that not make it in there?!?!

Josh

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the letter thing i think is kind of pointless

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