The Paveway bomb, the first "smart" bomb, was designed to be a more accurate and ostensibly humane weapon, with the aim of reducing civilian casualties. However, the real impact of this bomb is becoming more complex and unpredictable.
In his book "Warhead," Jeffrey Stern tells the story of Paveway through seven interconnected stories.
They are stories about Nazis, the Kennedys, Operation Paperclip, and Walt Disney; The story of the Apollo mission and the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.Paveway inadvertently sparked the personal computing revolution and the adoption of the Global Positioning System (GPS), paved the way for the era of modern warfare, and appears at crucial historical moments throughout the latter half of the twentieth century.
Combining factual revelation with human depth, Warhead reveals the complex truth behind one of the most important weapons of our time.The Book: An important and surprising study of the American military-industrial complex... What makes Stern's book particularly poignant is how he contrasts these accounts with those of weapons engineers and politicians who, by remaining at a comfortable distance from the carnage, fail to grasp the complexities of any conflict, confusing success with the number of targets eliminated... This book should be mandatory reading for all Americans.A gripping story of scientific and technological achievements, political and military arrogance, and the story of ordinary people who fell victim to the wrong decisions made by others, and died as a result... Through eyewitness accounts, Mr. Stern reveals, in harrowing detail, what really happens when precision-guided munitions take over the battlefield.
