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WEAPONS: Conventional & Non-Conventional

WEAPONS: Conventional & Non-Conventional. An Examination of Weapons and Military Tactics of the 20th Century. Weapons and Laws. The knife example. Two knives: two laws. Balisong: gravity opening knife. Spyderco Tactical Folder. The spirit of law What is the intent?. The letter of law

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WEAPONS: Conventional & Non-Conventional

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  1. WEAPONS: Conventional & Non-Conventional An Examination of Weapons and Military Tactics of the 20th Century

  2. Weapons and Laws The knife example.

  3. Two knives: two laws. Balisong: gravity opening knife Spyderco Tactical Folder

  4. The spirit of law What is the intent? The letter of law How is the law articulated? Fine Point of Law.

  5. Conventional Weapons

  6. Kalashnikov AK-47 M-16 M-60 M113 APC

  7. The Aircraft Carrier USS Independence

  8. McDonnell Douglas AH-64 Apache Attack Helicopter

  9. F-16

  10. Cruise Missile

  11. Non-conventional Weapons

  12. Chemical/Biological Weapons Napalm Victim: Sri Lanka Vietnamese child: Agent Orange

  13. Biological

  14. Nuclear Weapons

  15. The Davy Crockett Equivalent 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),

  16. MK-17

  17. What can a limited nuclear weapon do? • http://www.armscontrolwonk.com/693/thinking-about-the-unthinkable-a-couple-meters-underground

  18. Important terms • MAD: Mutually Assured Destruction • ABM: Antiballistic Missile System • Cruise Missile: small, pilotless jet aircraft; flies at low altitudes; easy to launch, and; very accurate. • Doomsday Clock • MIRV: mulitple independent re-entry vehicle.

  19. ABM in action MIRV in attack (note ABM) MIRV

  20. Helsinki Accord (1975): spirit of détente; issues resolved that were unresolved from Potsdam, recognition of east European boundaries, while US gets human rights issues recognized. • ICBM: Intercontinental ballistic missile; range up to 14 500 km in 30 minutes • Limited nuclear war: targets are industrial or military only; no cities.

  21. Nuclear-free zone: geographic zone free of all nuclear weapons in every aspect. • Nuclear proliferation: the spread of nuclear weapons; horizontal new weapons to new owners;vertical increase in a nuclear arsenal. • Peaceful coexistence: Khrushchev’s idea of political rather than military competition between superpowers.

  22. Pershing missile: ballistic missile for short to medium range. • SALT: Strategic Arms Limitation Talks; SALT I (‘69-’70) limited build up; SALT II was never ratified. • SDI: Strategic Defense Initiative (1985); Star Wars; satellite defense system. • SLBM: Submarine launched ballistic missile.

  23. A FISSION REACTION THIS IS WHAT MAKES AN A-BOMB OR ATOM BOMB

  24. By 1952 scientists had combined fission with fusion…. Slamming a hydrogen nuclei to form helium and this creates a thermo-nuclear chain reaction H-Bomb or Hydrogen Bomb 500 times the size of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Neutron Bomb: Kills all living things, but leaves buildings intact.

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