Hammond had requested all testing protocols for nonlethal weapons that involved humans, and they all related to the Air Force's Active Denial System. (A cover letter from the Air Force explained that the ACCM laser dazzler had been omitted because it did not count as a weapon.) Hammond's specialty is chemical and biological weapons, and as he already had plenty to deal with he passed the several hundred pages of documents over to me.
There were 14 documents -- eight are available for download below -- and as you progress through them you can see how the Air Force's testing evolved from simple experiments on a few square inches of skin into fully fledged war games. Also, the cautious approach of early tests is gradually relaxed as experimenters gain confidence in the system's supposed safety.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72236-0.html
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