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Weapons grade: how modern warfare gave birth to our high-tech world
Weapons grade: how modern warfare gave birth to our high-tech world
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Hambling, David
Publisher
Carroll & Graf
Publication Date
2005
Language
English
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pt. 1. Looking backward. Rocket science: V-2 to E4
Air raids to airliners
Computing: codebreaking to netsurfing
Death rays to DVDs
Ultimate power
Flights of fancy
pt. 2. Looking forward. UFOs and secret technology
The next computing revolution
Non-lethal death rays
Vortex rings
Mach 10 airliners and space tourism
Information warfare
Catching new waves
Robots in the air
Tools for terrorists
Nanotechnology: the future is small.
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Economic conversion
High technology industries
High technology industries -- Military aspects
Military art and science
Military aspects
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9780786715619
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