Bhut Burns

India adds world's hottest chili pepper to its anti-terrorism arsenal

India's newest biological weapon, the world's hottest chili pepper, or bhut jolokia, is 400 times hotter than Tabasco sauce, and just a touch on the tongue burns. India’s Army plans to use the chili in tear gas.

A farmer shows a 'Bhut jolokia', world's hottest chili pepper, plucked from his field in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, in this Associated Press file photo.

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I have friends who would put them on chicken wings.