
Modern Marvels
The electric shock comes in many forms, including lightning, stun guns, eels and the electric chair.

The electric shock comes in many forms, including lightning, stun guns, eels and the electric chair.

Precision-guided weapons become a flashpoint for war critics.

Civil War innovations including machine guns revolutionized modern American warfare.

Pirates influenced nations in 1700s while bringing maritime technology innovations and ship mods.

The forts, weapons and technology of barbarians.

How to construct a modern cartridge, and demonstrations of modern firepower.

World War I is the first lethal combination of Industrial Age technology and war on a large scale.

From Spam to nuclear power and cell phones, life as we know it ironically owes a lot to war.

Strategic Air Command controls thousands of nuclear weapons, planes and missiles.

Nuclear bombs and microscopic anthrax spores can be weapons of mass destruction.

Vehicle assembly; building a home in a week; high-tech golf clubs; building demolition.

Military planners move soldiers and cargo halfway around the world.

Nuclear technology has uses in medicine, food preparation and radiation detection.

The U.S. Navy's most lethal fighter, the F-14, soars at supersonic speeds.

The FBI's $150 million Crime Lab at Quantico, Va.

Earth's 40% desert classification offers hope through desalination, dam power, and solar energy.

The Allies devise scientific and mechanical breakthroughs to thwart Hitler's Atlantic Wall.

Strange weapons of the past and present include Japanese ninja claws, microwavelike rays, lasers.

Episode explores the science and technology of building and operating a base in a warzone.

Tiny weapons may not sound impressive, but small can kill, and it can also be easily concealed.