Equinox: Non Lethal Weapons

Record ID: 118345
  • Title: Equinox: Non Lethal Weapons
  • Date: 22nd September 1996
  • Summary: The film looks at the arsenal of weapons that disable rather than kill such as pepper spray,microwave guns,glue guns,net guns,foam weapons,aqueous foam,snare nets,acoustic weapons,anti-adhesive (slippery) liquids to non-lethal CS gas (used by British police) and questions whether these weapons really are non-lethal in the light of the thirty-two deaths from pepper guns in California alone recorded over a four-year period. Speakers include Janet and Christopher Morris who advise the US Army and the FBI; Lenore Anderson of Copwatch; a pepper spray salesman who volunteers to be sprayed; Prof Jonatahan Rosenhead; and Prof Michael Persinger,a Canadian neuroscientist.
  • Description:THE SCIENCE,ETHICS AND GEOPOLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE MAJOR NEW AREA OF WEAPONS RESEARCH - NON LETHALS,NOW BEING DEPLOYED FROM SOMALIA TO BOSNIA TO THE STREETS OF LOS ANGELES.
  • Broadcaster:Channel 4
  • Collection: Channel 4
  • Genre:Documentary and Factual
  • Producer:Unspecified
  • Programme Episode:Episode 1
  • Transmission Date:22/09/1996
  • Rights:On Request
  • Decade: 1990s
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