From Crossbow to H-Bomb, Revised and Enlarged Edition

"... offers the quickest way I know to acquire the basic historical background that we ought all to have." Louis J. Halle, Survival

• Introduction1. Antiquity2. The Middle Ages3. The Impact of Gunpowder/Early Artillery/Development of the Hand Gun/Naval Power, the Sailing Ship and the Gun/The Rise of the Military Engineer4. 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 Warfare5. The 18th Century and Napoleonic Wars/Changes in Weapons and Tactics/The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars/Naval Warefare and Technology/Eighteenth-Century Science6. The 19th Century/Science, Independent of War, Transforms War/Transformation of Land Warfare/Sea Power is Revolutionized/Late Developments in 19th Century Science7. World War One, the Use and Non-Use of Science/The Coming of the Airplane/The Submarine Story/The Stalemate on Land8. 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 Missile9. The Nuclear Revolution/The Warning/The Chain Reaction Problem/The Manhattan Project/Nuclear Developments after World War Two/Strategic Consequences of the Nuclear Revolution10. Operations and Systems Analysis, the Science of Strategic Choice11. 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 CostsBibliographyName and Weapon Index