The US plan for causing excruciating pain: the plasma weapon

Scientists have reacted very strongly in a negative way to the revelation that the US military is sponsoring the development of a weapon that can deliver an "excruciating bout of pain" from over a mile away. The "Pulsed Energy Projectile" (PEP) device "fires a laser pulse that generates a burst of expanding plasma when it hits something solid ", the New Scientist explains.