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Laser blinding weapons in Iraq

MAY 19, 2006
Physics Today
Los Angeles Times : IN 1995 the US signed the Convention on Conventional Weapons which outlawed laser weapons designed to cause permanent blindness to unenhanced vision. However, the convention, which came into force in 1998, does not have any compliance protocols, nor has it stopped the development of laser blinding weapons within the US military .
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