Weapons and equipment

The Carthaginians are well known as Rome's great enemy of the three Punic wars and Hannibal, their greatest general, is a household name.

The Carthaginians are well known as Rome's great enemy of the three Punic wars and Hannibal, their greatest general, is a household name.

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The Pzkpfw III tank was the mainstay of the Panzer divisions during the Blitzkrieg era and made up the bulk of the armored force sent to North Africa.

The Pzkpfw III tank was the mainstay of the Panzer divisions during the Blitzkrieg era and made up the bulk of the armored force sent to North Africa.

Does state acquisition of nuclear weapons lead to stability and peace or instability and crises?

Much has been written about the use of tanks in battle.

A technical study of medium & heavy tank gun systems used from World War I to World War II.

1977 und 1980 erscheint ein Katalog mit Kunstkunstobjekten aus dem Nahen und Mittleren Osten.

In 1983, more than one million Germans joined together to protest NATO s deployment of nuclear missiles in Europe.

Since the Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks, no state has unleashed nuclear weapons.

For more than forty years, the United States has maintained a public commitment to nuclear disarmament, and every president from Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama has gradually reduced the size of America's nuclear forces.

This stunning field guide provides a comprehensive resource for identifying and appreciating nearly 500 species of spiders.

Lethal autonomous weapons are weapon systems that can select and destroy targets without intervention by a human operator.

Daniel Gerstein draws on twenty-nine years of experience in the security and defense sectors to address the threat of bioterrorism.

In June 1944, U.

The authors were with the Japanese Naval Special Attack Force (Kamikaze Corps) from its inception in late 1944.

The definitive guide to the history of nuclear arms control by a wise eavesdropper and masterful storyteller, Michael Krepon.

In an age where anthrax can be produced in a garage and multilateral agreements among nations seem ever harder to reach, the threat of biowarfare could rapidly spiral out of control.

When the nuclear-powered submarine USS Triton was commissioned in November 1959, its commanding officer, Captain Edward L.

In August 1943, the Luftwaffe began using radio-controlled anti-ship glide bombs and within weeks they had sunk one battleship, crippled another, wrecked two cruisers, and destroyed numerous merchant ships.

In more detail than has previously been available, this book comprehensively covers all the various mechanisms of caste differentiation in social insects.

The torpedo was the greatest single game-changer in the history of naval warfare.

This book does for naval anti-aircraft defense what Friedman's Naval Firepower did for surface gunnery - it makes a highly complex but historically crucial subject accessible to the layman.

This collection offers a fresh interpretation of the Cold War as an imaginary war, a conflict that had imaginations of nuclear devastation as one of its main battlegrounds.

Through a reliance on nuclear weapons, President Eisenhower hoped to provide a defense strategy that would allow the U.

Filled with 1:72-scale drawings of armored vehicles from the U.

The Civil Wars single-shot, muzzle-loading musket revolutionized warfare-or so weve been told for years.

This collection offers a fresh interpretation of the Cold War as an imaginary war, a conflict that had imaginations of nuclear devastation as one of its main battlegrounds.

A New Naval History brings together the most significant and interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary naval history.

Focusing on three forms of biological threat--bioterrorism, biocrime and biohacking--the author examines the history of biowarfare and terrorism.

How the NRA became a political juggernaut by influencing the behaviors and beliefs of everyday AmericansThe National Rifle Association is one of the most powerful interest groups in America, and has consistently managed to defeat or weaken proposed gun regulations-even despite widespread public support for stricter laws and the prevalence of mass shootings and gun-related deaths.

The action-packed story of the WWII aviators known as the "e;362nd Suicide Outfit,"e; including 150 photographs.

The actions of Germany's armed SS force during D-Day in the series that's "e;a welcome addition .

The role that nuclear weapons play in international security has changed since the end of the Cold War, but the need to maintain and replenish the human infrastructure for supporting nuclear capabilities and dealing with the multitude of nuclear challenges remains essential.

Between 1946 and 1958, the U.

In the closing days of World War II, scientists working for the U.

Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) encompasses the various disciplines of wireless interception, cryptanalysis, communications intelligence, electronic intelligence, direction-finding, and traffic analysis.

This is the first book-length study of why states sometimes ignore, oppose, or undermine elements of the nuclear nonproliferation regime-even as they formally support it.

The threat of terrorists using WMD is not new, but the current expansion of these groups’ regional networks means that no state can consider itself immune from the threat of terrorist attack or proliferation activity.

The birth of the US Navy's "e;Take Charge and Move Out"e; (TACAMO) mission which provides essential airborne communications to the US nuclear deterrence forces.

A fully illustrated overview of the Nazi German Air Force's victory markings on their day & night fighter aircrafts in World War II.

The Nuclear Club reveals how a coalition of powerful and developing states embraced global governance in hopes of a bright and peaceful tomorrow.

In Learning to Love the Bomb, Sean M.

Panzers in Defence of Festung Poznan 1945 by Maciej Karalus and Jarosław Jerzak is the first book published in English to describe the bitter battle for Festung Poznań in 1945.

This collection of stories from Royal Air Force groundcrew reveals the critical operations and thrilling drama of Cold War hangars and airfields.

This is a story written by a young man who trained as a pilot, and then flew with the Royal Flying Corps in France during the First World War, eventually to become an ace.

The Korean War (1950-1953) was the first - and only - full-scale air war in the jet age.

In March 1945 the German Wehrmacht undertook its final attempt to change the course of the war by launching a counteroffensive in the area of Lake Balaton, Hungary.

In June 1941 - during the first week of the Nazi invasion in the Soviet Union - the quiet cornfields and towns of Western Ukraine were awakened by the clanking of steel and thunder of explosions; this was the greatest tank battle of the Second World War.