This is Your Brain. This is Your Brain as a Weapon.

Cutting-edge neural technologies can erase traumatic memories and read people’s thoughts. They could also become the 21st century’s next battleground.

BY TIM REQUARTH
ILLUSTRATIONS BY JIMMY TURRELL

On an otherwise routine July day, inside a laboratory at Duke University, two rhesus monkeys sat in separate rooms, each watching a computer screen that featured an image of a virtual arm in two-dimensional space. The monkeys' task was to guide the arm from the center of the screen to a target, and when they did so successfully, the researchers rewarded them with sips of juice.

This is Your Brain. This is Your Brain as a Weapon. by Thavam Ratna