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Nature 443, 911 (26 October 2006) | doi:10.1038/443911a; Published online 25 October 2006

Battlefield between the ears

Charles Jennings1

BOOK REVIEWEDMind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense

by Jonathan D. Moreno

Dana Press: 2006. 225 pp. $23.95

On an evening in October 2002, a group of armed Chechen separatists overran a Moscow theatre, taking the audience hostage and rigging the building with explosives. After a short stand-off, Russian special forces flooded the building with an aerosol based on the potent synthetic opioid fentanyl and then stormed it.

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