warlinks

LINKS FROM MY POWERPOINT PRESENTATION ON WAR AND
ITS TECHNOLOGY

These are web links from the presentation. For other references see the bibliography.
When possible, these are the same links as shown in the presentation. In some cases, the original links have gone out of
service, and in those cases equivalent links are listed here.

Gibbworld Home Page War Home Page

The Einstein quote, ""The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes
of thinking and thus we drift toward unparalleled catastrophe."
http://www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/BAShistory.html

Pinker, Steven (author of the just published book The Better Angels of Our Nature, Why
Violence Has Declined, Viking, 2011) described his ideas in a talk (including the data used here)
transcribed at
http://www.edge.org/conversation/mc2011-history-violence-pinker

Neolithic Cave paintings showing human on human use of bows were in the book The Origins of
War by Arther Ferrill, Westview, 1997ed. pp. 17-22 Online at
http://www.scribd.com/doc/61583251/Origins-of-War-From-the-Stone-Age-to-Alexander-the-Great

The draft article on Neolithic War by Arther Ferrill
http://members.tripod.com/~ujid/history/neolithic-war.html

The Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wy
http://www.bbhc.org/index_flash.cfm

Sources for US war casualties
IRAQ as of 10/19/2012: http://www.defense.gov/news/casualty.pdf
AFGHANISTAN as of 10/19/2012: http://www.defense.gov/news/casualty.pdf
OTHER WARS: http://www.history.navy.mil/library/online/american%20war%20casualty.htm
(The casualties, dates, and links are frequently updated)

Map source
www.theodora.com/maps

Ironclad Riverboat Photos from the Civil War
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-c/cairo.htm

CSS Virginia (Ex-Merrimack) photos
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-us-cs/csa-sh/csash-sz/virginia.htm

USS Monitor Photos
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-m/monitor.htm

Monitor-Virginia battle
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/civilwar/n-at-cst/hr-james/9mar62.htm

Mariners' Museum in Newport News, VA (where the Monitor's turret is displayed)
http://www.marinersmuseum.org/

Web Sites about the Confederate submarine H L Hunley
http://www.thehunley.com/
http://www.hunley.org/

Photos relating to the sinking of th USS Maine
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/spanam/events/maineskg.htm
See also this page on the USS Maine.

Photos of the destroyer USS Cole
http://www.cargolaw.com/2000nightmare_cole.html#disaster

Photos from the Battle of the Somme (1916) in World War I (including trenches)
http://www.worldwar1.com/pharc001.htm

Maps from World War I including the Western Front trench line
http://www.worldwar1.com/maproom.htm

Information about poison gas in WW I including a 1st person account of an attack
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/gas.htm

About tanks are their use in World War I
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWweapons.htm (Scroll to list of tanks -especially:)
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWmother.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWwillie.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWtankdevelop.htm

Other WW I Tank sites:
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/tanks_and_world_war_one.htm
http://www.firstworldwar.com/weaponry/tanks.htm

A site containing links to several photographers of World War II scenes and other scenes as
well as links to other information on World War II.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWphotographers.htm

A gallery of Bill Mauldin's "Willie and Joe" cartoons.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/warletters/gallery/index.html

Wikimedia commons photo of the destroyed German town of Wesel
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wesel_1945.jpg

Other Wikimedia commons photos of World War II destruction in Germany.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:World_War_II_destructions_in_Germany

National Archives search page (Search for IMAGE 208-N-39903 for the image of Wesel in the
slide show)
http://arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/BasicSearchForm?jScript=true

The Wikimedia Commons picture of the Wright Brothers first flight:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kitty-hawk.jpg

The National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium, Dubuque, Iowa
http://www.mississippirivermuseum.com/visitorinfo.cfm

A site telling the story of the World War II bombing of Coventry, England:
http://www.cwn.org.uk/heritage/blitz/

Some basic description of the German city of Hamburg:
http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Hamburg

A Hamburg map
http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/europe/european-union/germany/hamburg/map.htm

Here is a lot of information about the German World War II battleship Bismarck including
pictures of it under construction, pictures of the Blohm and Voss shipyard in Hamburg,
pictures of the two men (Hermann Blohm and Ernst Voss) and even a picture of the bill
(Rechnung) that was presented for the ship.
http://www.bismarck-class.dk/bismarck/miscellaneous/bismarck_birth_place/bismarck_birth_place.html

This site contains a description of the Hamburg raid that produced the firestorm.
http://www.century-of-flight.net/Aviation%20history/WW2/hamburg.htm

Another site that describes the bombing of Hamburg as well as other German cities:
http://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=55

The United States Strategic Bombing Survey, Summary Report (European War)
http://www.anesi.com/ussbs02.htm

I used this US Navy site frequently for material about aircraft carriers in World War II. It
contains a list of all carriers from the US Langley (the first operational one) through the most
recent one, the USS George H. W. Bush. It also includes the information about the USS Essex
used in the slide show.
http://www.navy.mil/navydata/ships/carriers/carriers.asp

Here is the video of the attack on the USS Enterprise (World War II) discussed in the slide
show. It contains pictures showing the ship turning rapidly, firing at incoming planes, two
bomb explosions on deck, and firefighting efforts. The explosion right in front of the camera
occurs a few seconds after the three minute mark in the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFXcnUtMT4A&NR=1

This site contains pictures and information about the escort carriers (also called "jeep carriers")
in World War II including the USS Long Island.
http://www.navy.mil/navydata/navy_legacy_hr.asp?id=3

Mariana Islands in the CIA World Factbook
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/cq.html

World War II action on Guam
http://worldwar2database.com/html/guam.htm

World War II action on Saipan
http://www.cnmi-guide.com/history/ww2/4/

World War II action on Tinian
http://www.cnmi-guide.com/history/ww2/7/

Map source
www.theodora.com/maps

The United States Strategic Bombing Survey, Summary Report (Pacific War)
http://www.anesi.com/ussbs01.htm

A US Department of Energy site with information and pictures about the Hiroshima bomb
http://www.cfo.doe.gov/me70/manhattan/hiroshima.htm

A US Department of Energy site with information and pictures about the Nagasaki bomb
http://www.cfo.doe.gov/me70/manhattan/nagasaki.htm

Regarding President Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb
http://www.losalamoshistory.org/nhd.htm (Truman's quote is in question 3 on this page.)
http://www.doug-long.com/hst.htm (The Henry Wallace quote is near the bottom under 8/10/45.)

Statistics and other information regarding the 9/11/2001 attacks in New York and Washington
and Flight 93 in Pennsylvania
http://nymag.com/news/articles/wtc/1year/numbers.htm
http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/index.htm
http://www.sacred-texts.com/ame/911/index.htm

Many images of nuclear explosions
http://photobucket.com/images/nuclear%20explosion/

Operation Crossroads (The nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946)
http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq76-1.htm

The ICBM Missile silo that is open to the public in South Dakota
http://www.nps.gov/mimi/index.htm

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists article on global nuclear stockpiles
http://thebulletin.metapress.com/content/c4120650912x74k7/fulltext.pdf

The Arms Control Association fact sheet on the START I arms control treaty
http://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/start1

The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) on the START I treaty
http://www.fas.org/nuke/control/start1/index.html

The Arms Control Association fact sheet on the START II arms control treaty
http://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/start2chron

The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) on the START II treaty
http://www.fas.org/nuke/control/start2/index.html

The Union of Concerned Scientists on the Treaty of Moscow arms control treaty
http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear_weapons_and_global_security/nuclear_weapons/policy_issues/the-moscow-treaty.html

The Union of Concerned Scientists on the New START treaty of 2010
http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/nwgs/start-follow-on-fact-sheet.pdf

A paper about the Seven-Years' War (French & Indian War)
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/E/7yearswar/fiw02.htm

More about recent incidents that might have caused a nuclear war with a little less luck
http://www.gibbworld.com/files/worldwars2010.pdf