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Pentagon officials said they would like to get $41 million in 1995, for
developing these weapons which include their electromagnetic pulse systems.299
This "meager" sum has a good deal of reach, because it is for implementing already
understood technology, for building prototype weapons out of mostly "off the shelf
parts. The only challenge would be putting them together. The basic research for
these technologies was done with "black budget" money. (These are funds which are
so secret even the Congress does not know how the money will be spent, behind
which organizations like the CIA, government laboratories run by the military and
other intelligence organizations, hide their programs.) The Pentagon actually
received $50 million to be used jointly with the Department of Justice in developing
these "non-lethal" weapons.300
In press statements, the government continues to downplay the risks
associated with such systems, even though the lethal potential is described in context
of their own usage policy. In Orwellian double speak, what is nonlethal can be lethal.

The development of these technologies is being jointly managed by the
Non-Lethal Weapons Steering Committee, which is co-chaired by the Undersecretary
of Defense for Acquisition and Technology and the Office of the Assistant Secretary
of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict.301 This crystallizes
the new Justice Department and Department of Defense alliance for future law
enforcement and military initiatives, in the United States.

The weaving together of Department of Defense missions with civilian
Department of Justice missions is unprecedented. Not since the Civil War has the
military machinery - except in very limited riot control actions - been turned
against United States citizens. The idea of using these dangerous and intrusive
systems is counter to good public policy. This raises serious questions regarding use
of our Department of Defense for domestic police actions, which may be a violation
of constitutional law by being in conflict with the narrowly-defined federal use of the
military "for the national defense".
International Alarm Bells Begin to Sound

Questions are not just being raised by the authors of this book, they are
being raised by the International Committee of the Red Cross. In their report from
mid-1994,302 a number of points were raised.

The idea of "war without death" was not new but began in the I950's,
according to the report. The military interest in these systems dealt with chemical
weapons, later advancing to radiation weapons. The report looked at the
ramifications of international law regarding use of these new technologies. It pointed
299 The wall street Journal, "Nonlethal Arms, New Class of Weapons Could Incapacitate Foe Yet
Limit Casualties, by Thomas E. Ricks, January 4,1993, page A1 and A4.
300 Warren Hough, "High-Tech Civilian Control Studied; Secret Pentagon - DoJ Memo of
Understanding, 'Non-lethal' weapons under development, are being added to the government arsenal
in its war against its own citizens.", The Spotlight, July 31, 1995.
301 Perry Plans to Launch Nonlethal Warfare Effort, Defense News September 19-25, 1994.
302 "Expert Meeting on Certain Weapon Systems and on Implementation Mechanisms in
International Law", Report of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, Switzerland,
May 30 - June 1, 1994. Issued July 1994.