The title of the book we read was The Social History of the Machine Gun. This publication basically outlined the progression of machine guns, starting with the 14th century’s organ gun and ending around 1940. This advancement through technological eras showed man’s relationship with this technology and how well we dealt with the responsibility of the awesome power of the automatic weapon. First mention in 1339. No metals that could with stand the pressures of …showed first 75 words of 1677 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1677 total…changing yet. We as humans are becoming bystanders more and more now. Computers are going to be fighting the wars in years soon to come. With the introduction of nuclear weapons now, there is a logical conclusion in sight. The end of the world will not come with a whimper or a bang, it will come with the statistically inevitable short circuit that will launch the missiles from the silos, and helpless we will stand.