Through the Ages: MilitaryAdvancements

About the Presenter• Lance Watson• 18 (19 tomorrow!)• Freshman at FSU• Majoring in Biological Sciences• Works as an assistant at the FSU Law School•

About the Issue• War used to be fought through hand to hand

combat, but now with mega weapons they are threatening the entire world and can put us on a path to global apocalypse

The First World War• Trench Warfare• Poison gas• Airplanes• Tanks• Battleships• Low tech submarines• Flame throwers

The Second World War• Jets• Upgraded tanks• Six wheeled amphibious trucks (beach landings)• Aircraft carriers• German U-boats• Mortars• Radar and Sonar• Atomic bomb

The Cold War• Ballistic missiles

21st Century Technology

• Expanded battle fields• Armed unmanned aerial drone vehicles• Upgraded explosives• Suicide bombers• The internet

Review of Literature• After the End: Berger discusses ghosts, angels,

and survivors. • Ghosts go through apocalyptic event but die• Angels are a sign that scars of the past cannot be

healed but must be transcended• Survivors are people who were there and went

through an apocalyptic event

Movie Review• 13 Days: released in 2000, discusses two weeks

of Cold War in October 1962. • Strategic Air Command (SAC) was raised to

DEFCON 2 (one shy of imminent war)• Soviets were caught putting missiles in Cuba

because the United States had missiles in Jupiter Turkey.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSA7Evcy7iE

TV Show Review• The Day After: aired on ABC in 1983 as a two hour tv

special. It depicts a fictional war between the Soviets and the US. When the US decides to not stop occupying the Berlin Wall, the Soviets move in and take over. A few days later a US Air Force colonel receives word that a Soviet nuclear launch was in full effect. 32 nuclear war heads land in the Midwest and destroys everything in its path. The latter part of the story is about two men Dr. Oakes and Professor Huxley going from town to town to help out those in need. The entire movie is about nuclear fall out (aftermath of apocalypse) that eventually kills everyone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2H1E02iMHg

Conclusion• From the start of WWI all the way up to present

day 2012, it is very clear how far the world has come in the advancement of technology.

• From machine guns in the early 1900’s, to the atomic bomb that ended the war in 1945, to the missiles in the Cold War, and now nuclear war heads, it is only a matter of time before one of these countries uses what they have and sends the rest of the world down a road to definite destruction.