自从《生化危机》和《惊变28天》等僵尸类电影和游戏问世以来，人们一直热衷于研究防范僵尸袭击的各种方法。不过，俄罗斯国防部近日却声称他们正在研发一款能把人变成僵尸的武器。据悉，这种新式武器为一款电磁枪支，击中目标的中枢神经系统后能够让其在短时间内处于类似僵尸的状态。俄罗斯国防部长表示，他们目前对这款枪支的威力了解不多，不过可以肯定的是，被这款枪支袭击的人不会像电影中的僵尸一样喜欢以人脑为食，也不会将身边的人变成僵尸。

Russian President Vladmir Putin confirmed that his country is working on the creation of an electromagnetic gun that attacks its target's central nervous system, putting them in what we hope is a temporary, zombie-like state.

Ever since the game Resident Evil and the movie 28 Days Later breathed new light into the zombie attack genre, America has been on something of an obsessive kick. We all played Plants vs. Zombies. We've designed exercise routines to help keep us safe from the zombie apocalypse. There are even zombie attack bedsheets. Thankfully, though, a zombie attack is an impossibility. Or is it?

Russian President Vladmir Putin confirmed that his country is working on the creation of an electromagnetic gun that attacks its target's central nervous system, putting them in what we hope is a temporary, zombie-like state. According to Russian defense minister Anatoly Serdyukov, "when it was used for dispersing a crowd and it was focused on a man, his body temperature went up immediately as if he was thrown into a frying pan."

"We know very little about this weapon, and even special forces guys can hardly cope with it," added Serdyukov. That doesn't sound very comforting.

While this technology is certainly disturbing, thankfully, it's unlikely to be the cause of the inevitable zombie apocalypse. Victims of the gun don't — as far as we know — develop a taste for human brains. And since the zombie effect isn't viral, those dissidents won't be able to go around turning other people into the restless undead. Phew.

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(Agencies)

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