POL 607 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Islamic Extremism, Black Budget, Machine Gun
10 Apr 2013
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0. 001 (weapon gunpowder bombs: 1914. 1. 0 (weapon large cannon: 1940. 20,000 (weapon hiroshima atomic bomb: 1961. 50 million (weapon largest hydrogen bomb) Weapons present the dark side of technological advances. 20th century was the bloodiest century in history: more ppl got killed in this century than ever before, wwii had huge % of killing. Bow & arrow was 1 of the early inventions of weapons. Canons & gunpowder was invented in 14th century. Guns, rifles, machine guns in 18th century. Civil war was the bloodiest war in history up to that time: 600,000 americans died, machine gun was used for the 1st time in civil war and resulted in so much deaths. This technological advancement caused so many people to die. Ex. projects that could take place in area 51 which the entire world is not aware of other than the us government.
