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| Introduction | |
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| Antiquity | |
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| The Middle Ages | |
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| The Impact of Gunpowder | |
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| Early Artillery | |
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| Development of the Hand Gun | |
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| Naval Power, the Sailing Ship and the Gun | |
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| The Rise of the Military Engineer | |
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| War and Science in the 17th Century | |
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| Improvements in the Hand Gun | |
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| Artillery Changes, 1600-1700 | |
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| Seventeenth-Century Science | |
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| Seventeenth-Century Fortification | |
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| Seventeenth-Century Naval Warfare | |
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| The 18th Century and Napoleonic Wars | |
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| Changes in Weapons and Tactics | |
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| The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars | |
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| Naval Warefare and Technology | |
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| Eighteenth-Century Science | |
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| The 19th Century | |
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| Science, Independent of War, Transforms War | |
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| Transformation of Land Warfare | |
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| Sea Power is Revolutionized | |
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| Late Developments in 19th Century Science | |
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| World War One, the Use and Non-Use of Science | |
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| The Coming of the Airplane | |
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| The Submarine Story | |
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| The Stalemate on Land | |
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| World War Two | |
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| The Role of the Scientist | |
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| The Supremacy of the Airplane | |
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| Radar | |
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| The Proximity Fuse | |
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| Fire-Control Mechanisms | |
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| Antisubmarine Measures | |
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| Incendiaries and Smoke Screens | |
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| The Coming of the Ballistic Missile | |
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| The Nuclear Revolution | |
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| The Warning | |
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| The Chain Reaction Problem | |
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| The Manhattan Project | |
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| Nuclear Developments after World War Two | |
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| Strategic Consequences of the Nuclear Revolution | |
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| Operations and Systems Analysis, the Science of Strategic Choice | |
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| Recent Weaponry Changes (1962-1972) | |
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| The New School of Conventional War Thinking | |
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| New Weapons for Non-Nuclear War | |
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| New Naval Weaponry | |
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| New Strategic Weapons Developments: The MIRV and ABM Systems | |
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| The Problem of Mounting Costs | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Name and Weapon | |
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| Index | |