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Napalm, incendiary gel that sticks to skin and burns to the bone, came into the world on Valentine's Day 1942 at a secret Harvard war research laboratory. On March 9, 1945, it created an inferno that killed over 87,500 people in Tokyo - more than died in the atomic explosions at Hiroshima or Nagasaki. It went on to incinerate sixty-four of Japan's largest cities. The Bomb got the press, but napalm did the work. Robert Neer has written the first history...

"Learn the amazing history of war machinery and weapons in this comprehensive, 13-part documentary series which chronicles the earliest weaponry of a primitive era through the most technologically advanced machines used by the armed forces around the world. From gunpowder to the Gatling gun, the first tank to the latest unmanned drones, the mechanisms and machinery man has created to wage war and the historical achievements across land, sea and air...

A top-secret operation is launched to extend the lives of key scientists by cloning them. Dr Jance is only months away from perfecting a weapons system but is also weeks away from dying of cancer. He is persuaded to join the Fountain Society A scientist's brain is removed from his sick body and placed into a healthy banker, his clone. This is so the scientist can continue work on the ultimate weapon. But compatibility problems arise, involving not...

The Air Force is drawn into a conflict in post-Gadhafi Libya that will test their newest invention of a highly advanced, unmanned aerial drone.

With extremist Islamic pirates, supported by a powerful Saudi terrorist, preying on civilian vessels in the Gulf of Aden, America sends in a state-of-the-art warship to combat the threat, aided by a pair of Dreamland Megafortresses and their Flighthawk escorts, but professional rivalries could destroy the mission.

"In six weeks during April and May 1915, as World War I escalated, Germany forever altered the way war would be fought. On April 22, at Ypres, German canisters spewed poison gas at French and Canadian soldiers in their trenches; on May 7, the German submarine U-20, without warning, torpedoed the passenger liner Lusitania, killing 1,198 civilians; and on May 31, a German Zeppelin began the first aerial bombardment of London and its inhabitants. Each...

General Patrick McLanahan, commander of the new Aerospace Battle Force, ignores directives from the White House and Pentagon to stand down and orders the ABF to attack secret Russian bases in Iran in an attempt to thwart Russian aggression.