In 2000, the Pentagon had fewer than fifty aerial drones; len years later, it had a fleet of nearly 7,500, and the US Air Force now trains more drone 'pilots' than bomber and fighter pilots combined. Drones are already a $5 billion business in the US alone.

American activist Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the peace group CODEPINK and the international human rights organization Global Exchange, provides the first extensive analysis of who is producing the drones, where they are being used, who controls these unmanned planes, and what are the legal and moral implications of their use. Benjamin also looks at what activists, lawyers, and scientists across the globe are doing to ground these weapons.

Finally, as Americans brace themselves for the use of drones over their own skies for domestic purposes, Benjamin warns that the assassinations. the US and other countries are carrying out from the oir will come back to haunt them when others. start doing the same thing to them.