Saturday, July 21, 2012

A Survey of Strange Assassination Tech


Exploding Chocolate, Poisoned Scuba Suits, And The Bulgarian Umbrella: A Survey of Strange Assassination Tech -- The Atlantic

A newly revealed plot to kill Churchill with exploding chocolate prompts an investigation into history's weirder ways to assassinate.


"Dear Fish, I wonder if you could do a drawing for me of an explosive slab of chocolate," begins a letter from Lord Victor Rothschild, a British intelligence officer in World War II. "We have received information that the enemy are using pound slabs of chocolate which are made of steel with a very thin covering of real chocolate. Inside there is high explosive and some form of delay mechanism."

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My Comment: The best tech developed so far to assassinate enemy combatants is this one.

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