Weapons & Equipment

For decades, films such as WarGames and The Terminator have warned that the combination of artificial intelligence and nuclear weapons might be a r...

Holding Their Breath uncovers just how close Britain, the United States, and Canada came to crossing the red line that restrained chemical weapon u...

This is the first book-length study of why states sometimes ignore, oppose, or undermine elements of the nuclear nonproliferation regimeeven as the...

Book extensively covers the history of armored trains used by the Polish army from the end of the Soviet war to the conclusion of the 1939 campaign...

Suburban Empire takes readers to the US missile base at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, at the matrix of postwar US imperial expansion, th...

The first systematic look at the different strategies that states employ in their pursuit of nuclear weaponsMuch of the work on nuclear proliferati...

A science-based text, New Developments in Biological and Chemical Terrorism Countermeasures presents research that addresses the growing threat of ...

The highly successful 2cm FlaK 30 series of guns used by Germany in World War II was developed from the Solothurn ST-5, a 20mm anti-aircraft gun de...

At 18 years of age, Theodore Hall was the youngest physicist on the Manhattan Project, hired as a junior at Harvard and put to work at Los Alamos i...

In this concise account of why America used atomic bombs against Japan in 1945, J. Samuel Walker analyzes the reasons behind President Truman's mos...

Illustrated with accurate artworks of military aircraft and their markings, Chinese Military Aircraft is a detailed guide to all the aircraft types...

'Everything about this story is astounding' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday TimesTrinity was the codename for the test explosion of the atomic bomb in New ...

An unflinching examination of the moral and professional dilemmas faced by physicians who took part in the Manhattan Project.After his father died,...