A non-lethal hand grenade loaded with the world's most powerful chilles, Bhut Jolokia, has been trialled by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) in Tezpur in northeastern Assam state, India. "The chilli grenade would force a terrorist to come out of his hideouts as the smell is so pungent that it would literally choke them," R.B. Srivastava, a senior scientist and director of the DRDO said. The hotness of the bhut jolokia, measured in Scoville heat units is 1,001,304. It's nearly twice as hot as Mexico's red savina (577,000), the variety it replaced as the hottest

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