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The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

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What's the Point of Chemical Weapons?

In 2005, the Sunshine Project released a 1994 memo from the Air Force Right Laboratory called harassing annoying and bad guy identifying chemicals. It was basically just a list of spitball ideas, like an attempt to create these broad categories of chemical weapons. They talked about compounds designed to attract biting insects or rodents that could also disrupt food crop production.

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