weapons

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  12/15/2022
  

  Peace is Not Our Profession

  by William J. Astore

  The unveiling of the newest stealth bomber underscores the fundamental insanity and cruel wastefulness of the policy of peace through nuclear deterrence, argues a historian and retired USAF lieutenant colonel. 

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  5/24/2022
  

  The Arsenal of Autocracy

  by William Hartung

  If the current global situation is getting you down, think of the arms manufacturers: they're doing great. 

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  11/10/2021
  

  They Still Had to Fight the Battles: Jeremy Black's "Brief History of War" Shuns Technological Determinism

  by Crawford Gribben

  Black's synthesis of a long career of writing the history of war offers a bleak assessment of the likelihood of world peace, situating war in the context of humanity's perpetual state of crisis and adaptation. 

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• SOURCE: The National Interest
  4/13/2020
  

  How Hitler's World War II Weapons Helped Israel Win Independence

  And here is where the other odd twist of fate happened: Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin provided the arms.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/3/19
  

  Deadly gases may be starting to leak from Europe’s World War weapons cemeteries

  Used as a potentially deadly chemical agent during World War I, mustard gas can burn victims’ skin, respiratory tract and eyes.

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• SOURCE: Propublica
  12-18-17
  

  The Bomb That Went Off Twice

  The explosive compound RDX helped make America a superpower. Now, it’s poisoning the nation’s water and soil.

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• 12/31/17
  

  Why the “Merchants of Death” Survive and Prosper

  by Lawrence Wittner

  As long as people retain their faith in the supreme value of military might, we can probably expect defense contractors to continue profiting from war at the public’s expense.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12-24-13
  

  Mikhail Kalashnikov, Creator of AK-47, Dies at 94

  The arms designer developed the iconic weapon immediately after World War II.

• SOURCE: SciNor
  2-15-13
  

  Norwegian guerrilla warfare in the Iron Age

  This is the crux of a doctoral dissertation that researcher Ingrid Ystgaard will defend this spring at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She has studied weapons found in graves and the battle techniques they suggest during the transition from the early to the late Iron Age. The division between these periods was around 500 AD....