BBC: The US Army has transported to Afghanistan what it calls its Active Denial System, a truck-based weapon that focuses an intense, but nonlethal beam of microwaves onto enemy soldiers at distances of about 500 m. ADS is part of the Pentagon’s Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program, which includes optical weapons that distract without blinding and acoustic weapons that focus intense sound to warn off attackers.
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The Week in Physics" is likely a reference to the regular updates or summaries of new physics research, such as those found in publications like Physics Today from AIP Publishing or on news aggregators like Phys.org.
