SCIENTISTS WORKING ON 'ODOR BOMB'
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the worst smells imaginable to help the military develop an `odor bomb' so
foul it could clear crowds. 'What they would be interested in is something to
keep people out of certain areas,' said Pamela Dalton, a researcher at the
Philadelphia-based Monell Chemical Senses Center. `We are going for odors
that every culture has experienced and the experience is negative.'
The Pentagon asked Monell to help develop the stinky but non-lethal weapon.
The center's work on putrid odors was reported in the Jan. 7 issue of
Chemical & Engineering News, the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical
Society.
About 50 Monell researchers are probing human pheromones, inquiring about
food cravings or sniffing body odors. Dalton's job is to investigate what
odors offend people. 'Whether people are born with preferences for odors or
whether it is learned, we don't know,' said Dalton.
Researchers have looked for odors that produced a negative reaction in all
cultures, such as human waste, rotting animal flesh and garbage. They focused
on biological odors, believing they were most likely to be recognized, Dalton
said. Dalton cautioned that the military could be a long way from developing
such an offensive weapon, and that scientists are still trying to work out
some bugs..."
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