Weapons Technology

Revealed for the first time in Racing for the Bomb, Groves played a crucial and decisive role in the planning, timing, and targeting of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki missions. Norris offers new insights into the complex and controversial questions surrounding the decision to drop the bomb in Japan and Groves' actions during World War II, which had a lasting imprint on the nuclear age and the Cold War that followed.

The “fascinating” (Wall Street Journal) story of how military technology has transformed the world The history of warfare cannot be fully understood without considering the technology of killing. In Firepower, acclaimed historian Paul Lockhart tells the story of the evolution of weaponry...

From the acclaimed author of The Nobel Prize comes this fascinating portrait of four of the greatest minds in the history of science and the impossible turning point they faced. As World War II wound down, and it became increasingly clear that the Allies would emerge victorious, Albert Einstein invited three close friends - all titans of contemporary science and philosophy - to his home at 112 Mercer Street in Princeton, New Jersey, to discuss what they loved best: science and philosophy.

From multi-award-winning author James Bultema, Red Lines is the third explosive installment in the Sea of Red series, plunging readers into the heart of a modern military war between the United States and Iran. After a devastating attack on a symbol of American freedom by radicalized domestic Hezbollah terrorists, the United States finds itself on the brink of war with Iran. As relations between the United States and Iran collapse, retaliatory strikes ignite a modern conflict that reverberates across sea, air, and land. In a deadly game of cat and mouse, submarines prowl the depths, fighter...

The true story of how Ukraine built a drone air force out of electronics-store parts and stopped the second-largest military on Earth. February 24, 2022. Russian forces are invading Ukraine from three directions. The operation is expected to last for days. What happened next surprised everyone, including Russia. Dmytro Kozlov stood at his apartment window in Kyiv at 4:17 in the morning, watching the sky light up. He was twenty-nine years old, a software developer, a drone racer. He had a thought that would have sounded insane to any conventional military officer: *we can use racing drones ...

WEAPONIZING NON-HUMAN TECHNOLOGY A Groundbreaking Investigation Into The Biggest Cover-Up In American History When decorated military officers testify under oath about crash retrievals and non-human technology, when intelligence officials risk careers to expose illegal programs spanning from Roswell to Area 51, when defense contractors kill disclosure legislation—this isn't science fiction. It's the biggest cover-up in American history. 🔊 Also Available as an Audiobook on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Play & more! THIS ISN'T ABOUT ALIENS. IT'S ABOUT POWER, MONEY, AND CONSTITUTIONAL ...

In March 1983, as the world’s superpowers continued aggressively stockpiling nuclear weapons, President Ronald Reagan described his vision for a world no longer confronted with the concept of mutually assured destruction. A year later the Strategic Defense Initiative was established, followed soon after by the creation of the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO).

Drawing on 40 years of research and a treasure trove of new information, Tesla: Wizard at War provides a comprehensive view of Tesla's discoveries, which continue to influence today's military technology and diplomatic strategies. One of the world's leading Tesla experts, Marc J. Seifer, offers new insight into the brilliant scientist's particle beam weapon (aka the "Death Ray") and explores his military negotiations with pivotal historical figures - including his links to Joseph Stalin, Vannevar Bush, General Andrew McNaughton, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. 

Jeremy Black addresses not only firepower, but also power projection and technologies of logistics, command, and control. Examining military technologies in their historical context and the present centered on the revolution in Military Affairs and Military Transformation, Black then forecasts possible future trends.

Explores how chemicals and nanotechnology are being continuously delivered via chemtrail aerosols by jets, drones, and rockets in the guise of “climate change” Examines the public-private partnerships behind transhumanism, including Big Pharma, GMO agribusiness, DARPA/IARPA...

A strange and unexplainable phenomenon led to the fall of civilization. It began on an evening like any other. The Sun had set on another day, but by the next morning, humanity realized that there were no more stars in the sky. Somehow, overnight, mankind had become alone in the universe and only an AI program knew why.

Drone Wars: The Future of Conflict is a groundbreaking exploration of how unmanned systems are transforming the battlefield, shifting global power, and redefining the rules of war. From the Bronze Age to the nuclear era, history has demonstrated that revolutions in military technology have reshaped societies. Today, the rapid rise of drones—affordable, autonomous, and increasingly lethal—is the next evolution. Once the domain of superpowers, drone warfare has been democratized. Now, insurgents, terrorists, criminal cartels, and lone actors can wield capabilities once reserved for the ...

Jason King and Will Slater, the two most lethal operatives in government history, are out on their own. They’ve been through their personal journeys into hell, but they unite in New York City as brothers in arms. So begins a vigilante crusade against the city’s morally bankrupt inhabitants. But their private war doesn’t last long. Sometimes you can’t escape the past, no matter how hard you try. They’re revisited by old government contacts with an agenda, and soon enough they’re fighting tooth and nail to prevent the destabilization of the entire country.

Ukraine is the largest country in Europe. Most people couldn't find it on a map before February 2022. Four years later, it is the place where the shape of the twenty-first century is being decided — where a new kind of warfare is being invented under fire, where the credibility of the Western alliance is being tested in real time, where the lessons of the Cold War are being learned again at catastrophic human cost, and where a country of forty-four million people is holding its own against one of the largest military powers on earth. War in Ukraine: Seven Things You Should Know About the ...

At the dawn of the 20th century, humanity was facing global disaster. Mass starvation, long predicted for the fast-growing population, was about to become a reality. A call went out to the worlds scientists to find a solution. This is the story of the two enormously gifted, fatally flawed men who found it: the brilliant, self-important Fritz Haber and the reclusive, alcoholic Carl Bosch. Together they discovered a way to make bread out of air, built city-sized factories, controlled world markets, and saved millions of lives.

The Japanese War Machine in 1945: Secret and Special Weapons of Imperial Japan By Alan Yuen In the final year of the Second World War, Imperial Japan faced overwhelming industrial, material, and strategic disadvantage. Yet even as its conventional military power declined, Japan fielded a remarkable array of advanced, unconventional, and desperate weapons in an attempt to alter the course of the war. The Japanese War Machine in 1945 is a deeply researched and visually rich examination of the weapons, technologies, and strategic doctrines that defined Japan’s final wartime efforts. ...

From the #1 bestselling author of The Bourne Identity, an action-packed thriller about a Covert-One operative who uncovers a dangerous secret. On a remote island in the Canadian Arctic, researchers discover the wreckage of a mysterious World War II-era aircraft, a discovery that forces the...

Power always comes at a price. In Weapons: Volume 3, twenty original speculative fiction stories explore legendary artifacts that shape destiny, alter reality, and test the moral limits of those who wield them. From mystical relics buried in ancient civilizations to futuristic technologies that bend physics itself, each story centers on a weapon unlike any other - and the human choices that determine whether it becomes a force for salvation or destruction. This volume journeys across time and space: Arctic expeditions and forgotten longships Cyberpunk cities and quantum futures Drought-...

How Ukraine Became the World's Largest Military AI Laboratory For centuries, military power depended on manpower, industrial capacity, geography, and wealth. Today, it increasingly depends on data. Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, an unprecedented military experiment has unfolded on the battlefields of Eastern Europe. Every drone flight, every artillery strike, every electronic warfare encounter, every success, and every failure has been recorded, analyzed, and transformed into knowledge. Ukraine has accumulated more than two million hours of battlefield footage and ...

Everything is a trigger. White House journalist Tom Miller thought it was a random accident. It wasn’t. Something has been planted inside him. Not a virus. Not a toxin. A weapon. Engineered to stay hidden… until it’s activated. And in a world powered by signals, surveillance, and smart technology— activation is everywhere. To survive, Miller must disconnect completely. No phone. No network. No second chances. But he’s not the only one. When he discovers a list of infected carriers heading to a high-level global summit, the truth becomes clear: This isn’t an attack. It’s a ...