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Word: stuns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...guiding than gunplay. Soldiers today are asked more often to keep the peace or defuse demonstrations, and the last thing they want in those situations is to fire a lethal weapon. That's why the Pentagon is spending more and more research-and-development dollars on weapons that stun, scare, entangle or nauseate--anything but kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond the Rubber Bullet | 7/29/2002 | See Source »

...Giant. Shwaery's team is looking into an even more radical solution: "tunable" bullets that can be adjusted in the field to be harder or softer as the situation warrants. "We're talking about dialing in the penetrating power," he says. "It's the difference between 'Set phasers on stun' and 'Set phasers on kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond the Rubber Bullet | 7/29/2002 | See Source »

...guiding than gunplay. Soldiers today are asked more often to keep the peace or defuse demonstrations, and the last thing they want in those situations is to fire a lethal weapon. That's why the Pentagon is spending more and more research-and-development dollars on weapons that stun, scare, entangle or nauseate - anything but kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond the Rubber Bullet | 7/21/2002 | See Source »

...Giant. Shwaery's team is looking into an even more radical solution: "tunable" bullets that can be adjusted in the field to be harder or softer as the situation warrants. "We're talking about dialing in the penetrating power," he says. ?It's the difference between 'Set phasers on stun' and 'Set phasers on kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond the Rubber Bullet | 7/21/2002 | See Source »

...science fiction becomes perilously thin. Mission Research Corp. of Santa Barbara, Calif., is working on a pulsed energy projectile (PEP) that superheats the surface moisture around a target so rapidly that it literally explodes, producing a bright flash of light and a loud bang. The effect is like a stun grenade, but unlike a grenade the pep travels at nearly the speed of light and can take out a target with pinpoint accuracy. Or picture this: a flashlight-size device, currently in development at HSV Technologies in San Diego, that transmits a powerful electric current along a beam of ultraviolet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond the Rubber Bullet | 7/21/2002 | See Source »

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