Audio-Visual Materials: U: Military Science

Disc 1: No place to hide: From guns that shoot around corners to the world's most advanced supersonic jet fighters, these innovative weapons leave the enemy with no place to hide and with no clue where the attack is coming from ; Stealth: Modern warfare is about creeping up on your target unseen. The enemy of the future will probably be invisible because of the dark and secretive world of stealth technology. Disc 2: Maximum impact: These weapons guarantee complete destruction of their extensive targets. They include Metal Storm, the most destructive automatic gun ever created, the cave-crusing thermabaric bomb, and the unbeatable Multiple rocket launch system ; Future shock: Peer into the future with weapons more subtle and sinister than anything ever seen before. From powerful lasers to bombs that destroy through electormagnetics, the dynamics of warfare are about to change. Disc 3: Smart weapons: Search the latest most terrifying top-level technology - weapons that actually seek out and destroy targets by themselves, nearly unaided by humans ; The power of fear: Future weapons can inflict terror in our everyday lives like the Sensor fuzed weapon, which can reduce a line of tanks to dust, and the Massive Ordnance Air Burst (MOAB), which can take out two city blocks.

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The anthrax mailings in the wake of the September 11 attacks have raised the specter of a possible wide-scale bioterrorism assault on America. Newspapers and television broadcasts have considered every possible permutation in the weeks following the discovery of the first tainted letters, replaying horror stories of canisters in the subway or poison being released from airplanes. This program reveals the reasons why such attacks are so unlikely to be successful. Leading bioterrorism experts--including several veterans of the massive Soviet bioweapons program--detail the many obstacles standing in the way of a bio-attack. Officials from the State and Defense Departments tell how the government is working both to prevent and contain such attacks, and scientists explain the differences among the various potential bio-agents.

Presents the history of chemical and biological warfare. Focuses on military uses and gives examples from history on the use of chemical and biological weapons.

Traces the history of biological and chemical warfare, from the medieval practice of catapulting plague-contaminated flesh into enemy strongholds to the use of Sarin gas in World War I. Also examines modern cases like the attack in the Tokyo subway and Saddam Hussein's efforts to develop chemicals weapons for Iraq.

Describes history of chemical and biological weapons.

It was August 1945, and American Marines were being slaughtered by the thousands as they advanced on the islands surrounding Japan. What the U.S. needed was a secret weapon that would end the war swiftly. This program investigates the disturbing events that led to the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan alongside leading historians and military experts.