The History of WMD s | Machinery of War

Mass Destruction. The efficiency of destruction has been a recurring them in war, and in modern times the capability for carnage on the battlefield has grown exponentially. This episode looks at the destructive capability of machinery across all scales, the inventions that unleash maximum carnage then and now. From the portable Mk2 Grenade to Oppenheimer s historic bomb which brought an end to WWII. From the beginning of the twentieth century to today, war has radically transformed. Through mechanisation and industrialisation, the methods used to settle conflicts have made the art of war more hi-tech, more expensive, and more devastating than ever before. Violence, it seems, is the mother of invention. Subscribe – http://goo.gl/wpc2Q1