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WEAPONS: Conventional & WEAPONS: Conventional & Non-ConventionalNon-Conventional
An Examination of Weapons and Military Tactics of the 20th
Century
Weapons and Laws
The knife example.
Two knives: two laws.
Spyderco Tactical Folder Balisong: gravity opening knife
Fine Point of Law.
• The spirit of law– What is the intent?
• The letter of law– How is the law
articulated?
Conventional Weapons
Kalashnikov AK-47
M-16
M113 APC
M-60
The Aircraft Carrier USS Independence
McDonnell Douglas AH-64 Apache Attack Helicopter
F-16
Cruise Missile
Non-conventional Weapons
Chemical/Biological Weapons
Napalm Victim: Sri Lanka
Vietnamese child: Agent Orange
Biological
Nuclear Weapons
The Davy CrockettEquivalent to 10 tons of TNT, or two to four times as powerful as the ammonium nitrate
bomb which destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in
Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995),
MK-17
What can a limited nuclear weapon do?• http://www.armscontrolwonk.com/693/thinking-about-the-unthinkable-a-couple-meters-undergroun
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Important terms
• MADMAD: Mutually Assured Destruction
• ABMABM: Antiballistic Missile System
• Cruise MissileCruise Missile: small, pilotless jet aircraft; flies at low altitudes; easy to launch, and; very accurate.
• Doomsday ClockDoomsday Clock• MIRV: mulitple independent re-entry MIRV: mulitple independent re-entry
vehicle.vehicle.
ABM in action
MIRV MIRV in attack (note ABM)
• Helsinki AccordHelsinki Accord (1975 (1975): spirit of détente; issues resolved that were unresolved from Potsdam, recognition of east European boundaries, while US gets human rights issues recognized.
• ICBMICBM: Intercontinental ballistic missile; range up to 14 500 km in 30 minutes
• Limited nuclear warLimited nuclear war: targets are industrial or military only; no cities.
• Nuclear-free zoneNuclear-free zone: geographic zone free of all nuclear weapons in every aspect.
• Nuclear proliferationNuclear proliferation: the spread of nuclear weapons; horizontal new weapons to new owners;vertical increase in a nuclear arsenal.
• Peaceful coexistencePeaceful coexistence: Khrushchev’s idea of political rather than military competition between superpowers.
• Pershing missilePershing missile: ballistic missile for short to medium range.
• SALTSALT: Strategic Arms Limitation Talks; SALT I (‘69-’70) limited build up; SALT II was never ratified.
• SDISDI: Strategic Defense Initiative (1985); Star Wars; satellite defense system.
• SLBMSLBM: Submarine launched ballistic missile.
A netron hits the nucleus of a uranium
atom...
the nucleus absorbs the
neuton...
it becomes unstable...
and splits into two
releasing some energy
+ 2 or 3 neutrons...
causing a CHAIN
REACTION
A FISSION REACTION
THIS IS WHAT MAKESAN A-BOMB OR ATOMBOMB
By 1952 scientists had combined fission with fusion….
Slamming a hydrogennuclei to form helium andthis creates a thermo-nuclearchain reaction
H-Bomb or Hydrogen Bomb500 times the size of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Neutron Bomb: Kills all livingthings, but leaves buildings intact.