India heats up war on terror with chile grenade
GAUHATI, India — The Indian military has a new weapon against terrorism: the world's hottest chile.
After tests, the military has decided to use the thumb-sizedbhut jolokia,or "ghost chile," to make tear gas-like hand grenades to immobilize suspects, defense officials said Tuesday.
The bhut jolokia was accepted by Guinness World Records in 2007 as the world's spiciest chile. It is grown and eaten in India's northeast for its taste, as a cure for stomach troubles and a way to fight the crippling summer heat.
It has more than 1 million Scoville units, the scientific measurement of a chile's spiciness. Classic Tabasco sauce ranges from 2,500 to 5,000 Scoville units, while jalapeño peppers measure anywhere from 2,500 to 8,000.
R.B. Srivastava, who led a defense research laboratory in Assam, said trials are also on to produce bhut jolokia-based aerosol sprays to be used by women against attackers and for the police to control and disperse mobs.
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