The Sorcerer's Challenge: Fears and Hopes for the Weapons of the Next Millennium (Teach Yourself)

by David Shukman (Author), David Shukman (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1995

  $5.92

  The high-technology weapons of the Gulf War, which amazed the world with the accuracy of their destructive capability, were only the beginning of a revolution in warfare. Despite Cold War assurances, money is being poured into the global race for ever-deadlier armaments. The author of this book ventures into the world's secret military laboratories, and discovers weapons of awesome, space fiction technology: cruise missiles that think , robot soldiers no bigger than ants, and bio-engineered bugs which can immobilize enemy soldiers without killing them - the ultimate peace-keeping weapon. Shukman meets the inventors of these weapons, outlines the extraordinary scientific advances that have made their creation posible, and examines the implications for the planet.