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Reading “The Hollow Years” about France in the 1930’s. As war seemed more and more likely from the mid-1930's onward, a lot was talked about the possible merge
by Bucephalus355 8y ago
Reading “The Hollow Years” about France in the 1930’s.
As war seemed more and more likely from the mid-1930's onward, a lot was talked about the possible merger of chemical warfare and new airplane technology.
A particularly haunting line the author cites from a contemporary historian talked about how “a few dozen bombers can spread enough gas to push over all of Paris a tsunami of mustard gas 100 feet high and 50 miles wide”.
Probably not true, but interesting how they merged threats old and new.
- brownbat 8y agoH G Wells wrote in 1933 that submarines armed with intercontinental ballistic missiles loaded with some kind of chemical weapons would be a dominant factor in shaping future conflicts. He also predicted the international post service would take over the world and enforce universal basic English as the global standard language, so... some good ones, some bad. Still, the sub warfare bit was very prescient.
- lostlogin 8y agoIt’s interesting what wasn’t imagined given that the war ended with 2 planes levelling 2 cities as well as killing the inhabitants.
- aaron695 8y agoThey were more like towns by today's standards and were not leveled. Go visit when you can. http://www.atomicarchive.com/Docs/MED/med_chp10.shtml http://www.atomicarchive.com/Docs/MED/med_chp10.shtml I kinda get the point, but even today's nukes aren't scary. Outside of Hollywood a nuke war would be a blip in our history.
- megaman22 8y agoThere is a lot of startling military theory from the interwar years. Fortunately, the second go-round played out pretty convetionally.