Weapons Technology

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 New York Times bestselling authors Andrews & Wilson An activist entrepreneur, a maligned AI, and a newly minted homicide detective with a haunted past catastrophically intersect in The Sandbox. The Silence of the Lambs meets Ex Machina in this groundbreaking techno-thriller that redefines...

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.

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 ...

Drawing on deep, exclusive reporting, a veteran national security correspondent reveals how a new military-industrial complex is arising from the cradle of Silicon Valley, with vast implications for American democracy and the global balance of power. Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Alexander Karp...

Medieval knights were like armoured tanks in combat. They often made quick work of their enemies. They may not have realized it, but they owed their success to science. Learn how science helped medieval knights win victory!

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 ...

"John Wick" meets "The Day of the Jackal" in a deadly game of espionage and murder. Burke’s Hit Man is Book #9 in the Bob Burke thriller series, with 4.6 stars on Amazon and 4.7 stars from Goodreads. The Kremlin must have America's top-secret mega-laser weapon to avoid a humiliating defeat in Ukraine and to shore up its fading power. To steal the Laser prototype and the plans, they send their deadliest assassin—a fearless Georgian killer named Zuran Gelashvili. He's left a wispy trail from one end of Europe to the other of poisoned dissidents, mysterious bombings, and traffic accidents,...

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...

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...

This gripping military history reveals how one industrial invention transformed global warfare and political authority. Perfect for an educational commute, this thought-provoking narrative shifts the focus from calibers to the human cost of mechanized combat. It explores the factory owners...

Some weapons should never exist. This one is already on the road. When a military convoy is ambushed on a lonely stretch of high-plains highway, the killers leave nothing behind — no witnesses, no tracks, and no trace of DEEP LANCE, a prototype weapon the government swears isn't real. Frank Kane has seen the ambush site. He knows professional work when he's standing in it. The trail leads to The Well — a facility that appears on no map, answerable to no law, where an illegal country keeps its worst mistake buried. But the man they've been holding in the dark has been waiting years for ...

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. 

Evelyn Manchester was at the top of her profession—until an autonomous vehicle ran a red light and shattered her life. A brilliant San Francisco defense attorney, Evelyn survives the crash that kills her career but leaves her permanently blind. The police call it a tragic malfunction. A glitch in the system. Case closed. Evelyn knows better. Autonomous vehicles don’t accelerate through red lights. They don’t ignore obstacles. And they don’t just “fail” at the exact moment a powerful enemy needs someone silenced. As Evelyn fights to rebuild her life in a world without sight, she ...

The book that finally makes hypersonic propulsion readable by showing the real physics behind the speed instead of the marketing. Every week another **hypersonic** headline lands, and the same words hide very different engineering realities. A country announces Mach 6. A missile is declared operational. A passenger service is promised. But a press release and a demonstrated flight are two very different things, and without a framework any reader is at the mercy of whoever wrote the headline. This book gives you the professional reader's toolkit to tell them apart, using the same evidence ...

Drone Defence: The Shield of the Modern Battlefield is a deep, documentary-style examination of how modern nations are fighting back against the rise of autonomous drones. Drawing from real data and on-the-ground experiences in Ukraine, Israel, and NATO border states, it reveals the unseen architecture of modern air defence - radar grids, electronic warfare, artificial intelligence, and the people who keep them alive. Written in a clear, narrative voice that blends storytelling with factual analysis, the book traces how drones evolved from tools of observation into instruments of modern war...

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.

In the latest Rowe-Delamagente thriller, the two unlikely partners have less than a month to stop a North Korean missile strike after hijackers steal nuclear warhead-armed submarines. If they don’t, the USS Bunker Hill, on a peaceful mission to observe a North Korean missile launch, will be in grave danger. Piece by piece, Rowe and Delamagente uncover a bizarre nexus between a man Rowe thought dead, a North Korean communications satellite America believes is weaponized, an ideologue that cares only about revenge, and the USS Bunker Hill (a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser) tasked ...