HAS TECHNOLOGY BEEN CHANGING WARFARE? or WILL THE NEXT WAR BE LIKE YOUR FATHER'S WAR?

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SLIDE SHOWS Chapter 1 , The Long Path to Modern Times Chapter 2 How To Shoot Chapter 3 US Civil War: Tech Support Chapter 4 US Civil War: Hi Tech Chapter 5. One Bullet After Another After Another... Chapter 6. World War I: Modern Inventions Chapter 7. World War II: Bombing In Europe Sidebar 1. How to Make a Firestorm Sidebar 2. The Bombing of Hamburg Chapter 8. World War II - The Pacific:  The Air Over the Ocean Chapter 9 World War II - The Pacific:  Falling Fire Chapter 10 World War II: Atoms for War Nuclear Weapons Survey:   'nuff to make you think... What Does It take To Make A Nuke? World Wars:  How Many?  How many More?

PREVIEWS What are these slide shows and chapters all about?

Check out war and its technology before Firearms  in Chapter 1 Find out a few details about muskets and a few more primitive firearms in Chapter 2 This chapter is mostly about rifles and the devastation they caused in the US Civil War, althouh it also discusses some of what was done with cannons. See it in Chapter 3 Ironclad ships were still fairly new, though not unknown, at the time of the Civil War.  Some of the efforts toward using ironclads during the Civil War might surprise you.  See Chapter 4

Machine guns developed rapidly after the Civil War.  See a couple of stories about what they inspired in Chapter 5. World War I saw the first extensive use of machine guns on both sides (although they had been used in a very one-sided way earlier).  The results were surprising to many people at the time, and this helped lead to the introduction of some other new weapons.  Read about it in Chapter 6. In World War II, bombing came of age.  Massive bombing of cities and attempts to carry out pinpoint bombing of industries palyed a major part in this war.  Here is a look at some results of this bombing campaign in Europe is here, in Chapter 7. Some of the World War II bombing created fires so intense that there were called firestorms.  Find out what makes a firestorm in Sidebar 1. The first of these firestorms of World War II burned part of Hamburg, Germany.  Find out more about the city and what happened there in Sidebar 2.

Meanwhile, the newly developed aircraft carriers were able to project air power into areas undreamed of only a few years earlier -- such as Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian Islands.  They also made the American advance across the Pacific toward Japan possible.  The story is here in Chapter 8. Once the advance came close enough to Japan, large scale bombing of those islands could begin.  Find out about the result of this bombing in Chapter 9. The war finally came to an end after two atomic bombs were used as told in Chapter 10, which also considers whether the war could have ended in some other way. Here is alook at the effects of nuclear weapons and also a peek at how many of them there are.  'nuff to make you think... About those countries building nuclear weapons.  How do they do it? World Wars:  How Many?  How many More?