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George Sylvester Viereck, A Machine to End War, 1935

An interview with Nikola Tesla, containing speculation about his inventions and the afterlife.

Tags: Death Rays; Predictions; Tesla; War

'The Taliban's Opium War', The New Yorker

Tags: 2000s; 2007; 2007-7-9; Anderson, Jon Lee; Drugs and Pharmaceuticals; eradication; Medicine; Opium; War

'Little big wars', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2007; 2007-6-1; 21st century; Book reviews; Books; Gray, John; Martin Van Creveld; Military and Weapons; Niall Ferguson; Other; Reviews; Rupert Smith; War

'The coming robot army', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2007; 2007-2-1; 21st century; AI, Automation and Robotics; Automation; Electronics in military engineering; Engineering; Featherstone, Steve; Military applications; Military art and science; Moral and ethical aspects; Precision guided munitions; Remotely piloted; Robotics; United States; United StatesArmy; Vehicles; War

'Tell us, Solly', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2001; 2001-9-20; Institutions and Funding; John Peynton; Physics; Radford, Tim; Science and government; Solly Zuckerman; STS; War

'A woman with breast cancer', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1997; 1997-6-1; Breast; Cancer; Disease; Medicine; Nadler, Spencer; Pathologists; Pathology; Patients; Physician and patient; Spencer Nadler; Surgical; United States; War

'The future of war', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1984; 1984-5-1; Forecasting; Jenkins, Brian Michael; Social sciences; War

'Fact shortage no problem, analysts say', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1982; 1982-7-1; Cockburn, Alexander; Falkland Islands; Falkland Islands War; Military and Weapons; Other; Press coverage; War

'The Great and Terrible Wilderness-III', The New Yorker

Tags: 1970s; 1979; 1979-6-18; Bernstein, Burton; Energy Engineering; Engineering; Oil; Sinai Field Mission; Travel; War

'Midget Subs---The Navy's New Sneak Punch', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1950s; 1953; 1953-8-21; Engineering; Lockwood Jr, Charles; Mechanical Engineering; Military; Submarines; War

'When and Where Do We Drop the A-Bomb?', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1950s; 1951; 1951-3-10; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Atomic Weapons; Engineering; Lilienthal, David E.; Military Strategy; War

'Thunder in the Middle East', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1940s; 1946; 1946-4-13; Daniel, Clifton; Energy Engineering; Engineering; Oil; UNO; War

'All Out Against Cancer', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1940s; 1946; 1946-2-23; Cancer; Disease; Lees, Hannah; Medicine; Metaphor; War

'Don't Kill Your Car!', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1940s; 1945; 1945-7-14; Cars; Engineering; Green, Paul D.; Junk; Mechanical Engineering; Military; Scarcity; Scrap; War

'Bretton Woods or World War III', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1940s; 1945; 1945-6-2; Future; Gervasi, Frank; IMF; Politics; War

'Hitting Hitler's Oil Barrel', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1940s; 1943; 1943-9-18; bombing; Energy; Energy Engineering; Engineering; Gervasi, Frank; Oil; War

'We Are Ready with Gas', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1940s; 1943; 1943-8-7; Chemical Weapons; Chemistry; Marshall, Jim; Military; War

'What Our Submarines Are Doing', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1940s; 1943; 1943-4-3; Engineering; Gervasi, Frank; Mechanical Engineering; Military; Submarines; War

'Oil for the Planes of China', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1940s; 1943; 1943-2-13; de Luce, Daniel; Energy; Energy Engineering; Engineering; Logistics; Oil; supplies; War

'Socked.', The New Yorker

Tags: 1940s; 1943; 1943-2-6; aircraft carrier; Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Murphy, Mark; sinking; War

'A REPORTER AT SEA; Cabin Unreserved', The New Yorker

Tags: 1940s; 1943; 1943-1-9; Attwood, William; Embedded; Military and Weapons; Other; Transport; Troop Ship; War

'The Hand That Rocks the Axis', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1940s; 1942; 1942-7-11; Engineering; Military; Production; radio; Self-sufficiency; Shong, Andrew; War; Women

'Sky-Scow', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1940s; 1942; 1942-5-23; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Blimp; Engineering; Military; Schubert, Paul; U-Boat; War

'Coaling-ports of the world', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1916; 1916-6-1; Coaling-stations; Egypt; Energy Engineering; Engineering; Harding, George; Japan; Maritime (International law); Nagasaki; Panama; Panama Canal; Port Said; Shipping; Suez Canal; Trade routes; War