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

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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.