It foresaw the devastating effects of atomic weapons and envisaged high-flying jet bombers cruising at at.

Arthur C. Clarke envisaged particle beam weapons in his 1955 novel Earthlight, in which energy would be delivered by high-velocity beams of matter.

New forms of real world weaponry often resemble weapons previously envisaged in science fiction weapons.

In September 1942, the difficulties encountered in conducting preliminary studies on nuclear weapons at universities scattered across the country indicated the need for a laboratory dedicated solely to that purpose.

The program was accelerated in 1942, as the United States government became concerned that scientists in Nazi Germany were developing a nuclear weapons program.

Originally conceived as anti-ship weapons, PT boats were publicly credited with sinking several Japanese warships during the period between December 1941 and the fall of the Philippines in May 1942.

The museum's exhibits collection includes a wide range of objects, organised into numerous smaller collections such as uniforms, badges, insignia and flags ( including a Canadian Red Ensign carried at Vimy Ridge in 1917, a Union flag from the 1942 British surrender of Singapore, and another found among the wreckage of the World Trade Center following the September 11 attacks ); personal mementoes, souvenirs and miscellanea such as trench art ; orders, medals and decorations ( including collections of Victoria and George Crosses ); military equipment ; firearms and ammunition, ordnance, edged weapons, clubs ( such as trench clubs ) and other weapons, and vehicles, aircraft and ships.

Because of the war engaged with the Germany and her allies, Soviet Union did not undertake serious initiate to start the scientific research in nuclear weapons until 1942.

Chief Marshal of Aviation Alexander Novikov led the VVS from 1942 to the end of the war, and was credited with introducing several new innovations and weapons systems.

Further experimentation was carried out by the Luftwaffe weapons testing centre at Tarnewitz on the Baltic Sea coast through 1942, and an angle of between 60 ° and 75 ° was found to give best results, allowing a target turning at 8 °/ sec to be kept in the gunsight.

The MG 34 was the mainstay of German Army support weapons from the time of its first issue in 1935 until 1942, when it was supplanted by the next generation Maschinengewehr 42 or MG 42.

In 1942 there was some initial speculation among the scientists developing the first nuclear weapons that there might be a possibility of igniting the Earth's atmosphere with a large enough nuclear explosion.

Automobile factories stopped manufacturing civilian models by early February 1942 and converted to producing tanks, aircraft, weapons, and other military products, with the United States government as the only customer.

In August 1942, the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers established the Manhattan Engineer District ( MED ), also known as the Manhattan Project, to develop atomic weapons and to procure the raw materials, principally uranium, necessary for their production.

In return the AK began providing ŻOB with weapons and training, with the first shipment of guns and ammunition being provided in December 1942.

Two buttons are used: one for regular attacks ( with several weapons ) and one for special actions that executes either a loop like in 1942 or one of three special attacks that damage the plane.

Richard William Butler AC ( born 13 May 1942 ) has served as an Australian public servant, a United Nations weapons inspector and the Governor of Tasmania.

By 1942 the German atomic weapons programme had come close to being able to develop a nuclear reactor, but in order for the reactor to function it would require a great deal of heavy water.

In 1942, the U. S. Army acquired 19, 915 acres ( 80. 59 km² ) of land on which to manufacture weapons in support of World War II military activities at a cost of $ 62, 415, 000.

After the Battle of Stalingrad, in September 1942 the Wehrmacht's arms bureau, the Waffenamt, called for a new standard for assault weapons: 100 mm of armor to the front, 40 – 50 mm on the sides, wider tracks, ground clearance of 50 cm, top speed of 26 km / h and the lowest possible firing positions.

Early during the war-possibly until 1942 -, he had been hoping for political influence growing out of participation in a successful nuclear weapons project.

Unwilling and unable to openly resist the Germans in early 1942, it methodically set about creating a clandestine organization, engaging in propaganda work, and building weapons stockpiles.

The 72, 000 soldiers of the USAFFE, fighting with outdated weapons, lacking supplies, and stricken with disease and malnourishment, eventually surrendered to the Japanese on April 9, 1942.

However, RAF personnel were forbidden from using the weapons, a restriction which was extended to the RAF Regiment when it was formed in 1942.

The Battle of Midway was well underway by 4 June 1942 but as this decisive battle was happening, 1, 432 Nisei of the Hawaii National Guard had their weapons taken away and boarded onto the Matson liner SS Maui under the cover of night and shipped to the mainland without saying goodbye to their family or loved ones.

The maneuvers were held `` in secret '' after a regional seminar for the Minutemen, held in nearby Shiloh, Ill., had been broken up the previous day by deputy sheriffs, who had arrested regional leader Richard Lauchli of Collinsville, Ill., and seized four operative weapons, including a Browning machine gun, two Browning automatic rifles and an M-4 rifle.

Railroads, the telegraph, steamships, and mass-produced weapons were employed extensively.

Many ironclads were built to make use of the ram or the torpedo, which a number of naval designers considered the crucial weapons of naval combat.

The light tanks that were the last descendants of the light cavalry during the Second World War have almost completely disappeared from the world's militaries due to increased lethality of the weapons available to the vehicle-mounted infantry.

Current weapons were either based on jeeps or small tracked vehicles and the airborne troops thus always fought at a distinct disadvantage in terms of heavy weapons.

Although the early German Panzerjäger carried more effective weapons than the tanks on which they were based, they were generally lacking in protection for the crew, having thinly armored open-topped superstructures.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, a number of military armored vehicles were manufactured by adding armor and weapons to existing vehicles.

As early as 1966, resolutions were introduced to the United Nations charging that the U. S. was violating the 1925 Geneva Protocol, which regulated the use of chemical and biological weapons.

Most commonly the carvings of ivory and wood were for the purpose of hunting weapons.

An ASROC missile could hypothetically carry a 10 kiloton W44 nuclear warhead, although the W44-armed nuclear weapons were retired by 1989, and all types of nuclear depth bombs were removed from deployment.

At the start of the Cold War, bombers were the only means to take nuclear weapons to enemy targets, and had the role of deterrence.

Tools, weapons, armor, and various building materials, like decorative tiles, made of bronze were harder and more durable than their stone and copper (" Chalcolithic ") predecessors.

But the sources suggest the Batavi were able to swim across rivers actually wearing full armour and weapons.

The most recognisable type of boomerang is the returning boomerang ; while non-returning boomerangs, throwing sticks ( or shaunies ) were used as weapons, returning boomerangs have been used primarily for leisure or recreation.

The biological and chemical weapons developed during that period were tested at the Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah.

Considerable research into biological warfare was undertaken throughout the Cold War era ( 1947 – 1991 ) by the U. S., U. K. and U. S. S. R., and probably other major nations as well, although it is generally believed that such weapons were never used.

Countries began to develop weapons which were much more effective, and much less likely to cause infection to the wrong party.

As the 1970s passed, global efforts to prevent the development of biological weapons and their use were widespread.

It was here that most losses were inflicted upon the enemy, primarily through the capture of prisoners and weapons.

Among the evidence presented to the tribunal were the results of paraffin tests, used to identify lead residues from firing weapons, and that nail bombs had been found on the body of one of those killed.

Although the Nationalists had an advantage in numbers of men and weapons, initially controlled a much larger territory and population than their adversaries, and enjoyed considerable international support, they were exhausted by the long war with Japan and the attendant internal responsibilities.

The latter were promised amnesty, allowed to retain their weapons.