Facing the Flag
by Jules Verne
Publisher: The F. M. Lupton Publishing 1897
ISBN/ASIN: B001BJUZQI
Description:
One of the first books dealing with problems which was to become paramount half a century after its publication: brilliant scientists discovering new weapons of great destructive power, whose full utilization might literally destroy the world; the competition between various powers to obtain control of such weapons; and also the efforts of ruthless non-state groups to have it.
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