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Re: Non Violent Weapons

From: agoodall@s... (Allan Goodall)
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 04:09:20 GMT
Subject: Re: Non Violent Weapons

On Mon, 9 Mar 1998 20:32:15 -0600, jfoster@kansas.net (Jim 'Jiji'
Foster) wrote:

>Some time in the last six months, I read a SF short story about a war
in
>which the US and Soviets were fighting using non-lethal weapons, due to
>various treaties. They used gasses, semi-toxic poison tranq guns, etc.
The
>upshot of the story was, that in using non-lethal methodologies they
were,
>over time, causing more lasting trauma and psychological damage than a
>straight-up shooting war.
>
>Don't ask me where I read this; I've been burning through the
anthologies
>at the rate of about 2-3/month lately.

Hey, I remember this one! It might have been in one of the later
"There Will Be War" anthologies of Pournelle's.

Allan Goodall	     agoodall@sympatico.ca

"Once again, the half time score, 
 Alien Overlords: 142,000. Scotland: zip."
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