Israel is designing futuristic miniature weaponry under Shimon Peres’s guidance. The Israeli vice premier revealed in a Yediot Achronot article over the weekend that, following the lessons of the Lebanon war, he was spearheading new inventions in the field of military nanotechnology. Among the planned devices are a robotic hornet that can photograph terrorists and, if necessary, be used to blow them up.
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