Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 355.009
EAN: 9780253201614
ISBN: 0253201616
Label: Indiana University Press
Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: 1973-06
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Studio: Indiana University Press

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" ...offers the quickest way I know to acquire the basic historical background that we ought all to have." - O N Louis J. Halle, Survival. This classic in the field of military history covers weaponry from Archimedes catapult down to MIRV and the ABM, emphasizes the contributions of science to warfare, and includes an extensive new chapter on the weapons of the nuclear age.