The First Sword
“Who was the first that forged that deadly blade?
Of rugged steel, his savage soul was made.”
Introduction of Gunpowder
“The day when two army corps can annihilate each other in one second, all civilised nations - it is to be hoped - will recoil from war and discharge their troops.”
First Military Use of Dynamite
“As soon as man decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.”
First Rapid Fire Weaponry
“It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine - a gun - which could, by its rapidity of fire, enable one man to do as much battle duty as a hundred, that it would - to a large extent - supersede the necessity of large armies, and consequently, exposure to battle and disease would be greatly diminished.”
Earliest Advanced Ballistics
“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power; we have guided missiles and misguided men.”
Nuclear Warfare
“I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
By God, what the hell is next?