American arsenal : : a century of waging war / / Patrick Coffey.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Oxford ;, NewYork : : Oxford University Press,, [2014] 2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (337 pages) :; illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Edison at war
- Gassing the senator
- Mitchell's war in three dimensions
- The bombsight
- Precision bombing tested
- Napalm
- The switch
- The atomic bomb
- The weapon not used
- The Cold War and the hydrogen bomb
- Missiles
- War games
- Lessons from Vietnam
- Star Wars
- Smart bombs and drones
- Epilogue.