{"product_id":"from-crossbow-to-hbomb-revised-and-enlarged-edition-9780253201614","title":"From Crossbow to HBomb Revised and Enlarged","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis classic in the field of military history covers weaponry from Archimedes' catapult down to MIRV and the ABM, emphasising the contributions of science to warfare.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"... offers the quickest way I know to acquire the basic historical background that we ought all to have.\" Louis J. Halle, Survival\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Antiquity\u003cbr\u003e2. The Middle Ages\u003cbr\u003e3. The Impact of Gunpowder\/Early Artillery\/Development of the Hand Gun\/Naval Power, the Sailing Ship and the Gun\/The Rise of the Military Engineer\u003cbr\u003e4. War and Science in the 17th Century\/Improvements in the Hand Gun\/Artillery Changes, 1600-1700\/Seventeenth-Century Science\/Seventeenth-Century Fortification\/Seventeenth-Century Naval Warfare\u003cbr\u003e5. The 18th Century and Napoleonic Wars\/Changes in Weapons and Tactics\/The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars\/Naval Warefare and Technology\/Eighteenth-Century Science\u003cbr\u003e6. The 19th Century\/Science, Independent of War, Transforms War\/Transformation of Land Warfare\/Sea Power is Revolutionized\/Late Developments in 19th Century Science\u003cbr\u003e7. World War One, the Use and Non-Use of Science\/The Coming of the Airplane\/The Submarine Story\/The Stalemate on Land\u003cbr\u003e8. World War Two\/The Role of the Scientist\/The Supremacy of the Airplane\/Radar\/The Proximity Fuse\/Fire-Control Mechanisms\/Antisubmarine Measures\/Incendiaries and Smoke Screens\/The Coming of the Ballistic Missile\u003cbr\u003e9. The Nuclear Revolution\/The Warning\/The Chain Reaction Problem\/The Manhattan Project\/Nuclear Developments after World War Two\/Strategic Consequences of the Nuclear Revolution\u003cbr\u003e10. Operations and Systems Analysis, the Science of Strategic Choice\u003cbr\u003e11. Recent Weaponry Changes (1962-1972)\/The New School of Conventional War Thinking\/New Weapons for Non-Nuclear War\/New Naval Weaponry\/New Strategic Weapons Developments: The MIRV and ABM Systems\/The Problem of Mounting Costs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eName and Weapon Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400630608215,"sku":"9780253201614","price":15.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/from-crossbow-to-hbomb-revised-and-enlarged-edition-9780253201614","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}