A BBC correspondent provides a troubling look at top-secret weapons research around the world, detailing the development of a new generations of weaponry--including robot soldiers, electromagnetic guns, lasers, and genetically altered algae--and their implications for world peace. 17,500 first printing.

Tomorrows War: The Threat of High-Technology Weapons

History

Shukman, David

Military

Harcourt

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.

The Sorcerer's Challenge:FEARS AND HOPES FOR THE WEAPONS OF THE NEXT MILLENIUM (Teach Yourself)

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Teach Yourself

On the last day of February 1991, President Bush stopped a war that had been devastating for the Iraqis but a confident victory for the Allied forces. Now Iraq's Kurds are fleeing to Iran and Turkey in their thousands in fear of massacre by Saddam Hussein's forces. Ben Brown was in Riyadh for most of the Gulf War, and in Kuwait City when it was liberated. David Shukman was monitoring the air and ground war from London. Here they talk to key participants - pilots, Iraqi and British soldiers, American generals - to analyze the causes and conduct of the war and the Kurdish crisis that followed it. They look, too, at the "secret war" played out by human and satellite intelligence and Britain's SAS, and at disinformation - were the Allies led to overestimate the prowess of the Republican Guard and the number of its troops in Kuwait?

All Necessary Means : Inside the Gulf War

Brown, Ben

Middle East

Bbc Pubns

When frontline BBC news reporter David Shukman switched beat from world affairs to environment in 2003, he feared he might be in for a dull life. He couldn't have been more wrong. His new job has taken him to every corner of the earth: journeying up the fabled North West Passage in the Arctic, chasing after loggers in the Amazon and battling through plastic waste in the Pacific Ocean, getting trapped in Siberian blizzards along the way. Reporting Live from the End of the World charts Shukman's extraordinary adventures, in the process providing a fascinating eye-witness account of the state of the planet. Wonderfully written and often very funny, the book will be loved by travel, science or environment readers alike.

Reporting Live from the End of the World

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

IPS - Profile Books

This title reports from science's new frontlines. "An Iceberg as Big as Manhattan" is a gripping report on the new frontlines of science and the environment from the BBC's own correspondent, David Shukman. His skill is to get the big picture and to present it amid the everyday details of life and people. And these are the major stories of our day, whether Shukman is journeying up the fabled North West Passage in the Arctic, chasing after loggers in the Amazon, battling through plastic waste in the Pacific, or heading to the bottom of the sea to chart the effects of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. This new paperback edition of "Reporting Live from the End of the Word" (9781846688874) has been revised and updated to take stock of recent events. It provides a fascinating eye-witness account of both the environment and of life behind the cameras at the BBC.

An Iceberg As Big As Manhattan

Profile Books

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