A follower of todays headlines cannot escape the constant mention of concerns over the threat of weapons of mass destruction. In A Higher Form of Killing, author Diane Preston impressively details a mere six-week period in 1915 when the entire concept of killing on a mass scale took a quantum leap on battlefields, at sea, and in city streets. The tools of this paradigm shift were poison gas, submarine warfare, and aerial bombardment.
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