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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_weapon

>Blinding laser weapons have been tested in the past, but were banned under the 1995 United Nations Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons, which the United States acceded to on 21 January 2009

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_on_Blinding_Laser_Weapons

>The Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons, Protocol IV of the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, was issued by the United Nations on 13 October 1995.[1] It came into force on 30 July 1998.[1] As of the end of April 2018, the protocol had been agreed to by 108 nations.[1]