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AK-47: The Weapon that Changed the Face of War

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by Larry Kahaner


  Black, Chris

  Black Hawk Down (film)

  “Black Hawk Down” incident

  Blair, Tony

  blitzkrieg tactic, World War II

  Bloomfield, Lincoln, Jr.

  body armor

  Boland Amendment (U.S.)

  Bollywood

  Bolton, John

  Bout, Victor

  Boutelle, Richard S.

  Boutros-Ghali, Boutros

  Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence

  branding

  Brazil, weapons marking

  Bremer, L. Paul

  Brenes Jarquin, Carlos Alberto

  Brezhnev, Leonid

  Bromige, David

  Brown, Robert K.

  Browning Automatic Rifle

  Browning pistol

  Bryansk, Battle of (Soviet Union)

  Buchanan, James

  Buchanan, Thomas

  Bulgaria

  Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms

  Burkina Faso

  Bush, George H. W.

  Bush, George W.

  Cage, Nicolas

  Calero, Adolfo

  Canada, ammunition

  carbine, design of

  Carten, Fred

  Carter, Jimmy

  cartridges. See ammunition and cartridges ; ballistics

  Casey, William

  Castano, Carlos

  Castro, Fidel

  Caulfield, Matthew P.

  Central Institute for Precision Machine Building (TsNIITochmash)

  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

  Afghanistan war (Soviet Union)

  arms trade

  bin Laden, Osama

  drug trade

  Iran-Contra scandal

  Langley, Virginia, shootings

  Vietnam War

  Chamorro, Violeta

  Chamorro Cardenal, Pedro Joaquin

  Chapman, Nathan Ross

  Chávez, Hugo

  Chernenko, Konstantin

  Childers, Therrel “Shane,”

  children

  Africa

  Latin America

  South Asia

  China

  AK-47

  arms trade

  Rwanda genocide

  United Nations arms control

  warfare

  weapons marking

  Cholm, Battle of (Soviet Union)

  Churchill, Winston

  Clapsaddle, Eric

  Clinton, William J.

  Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA)

  Cocktail (film)

  cold war

  Afghanistan

  Africa

  AK-47

  Kalashnikov, Mikhail T.

  Nicaragua

  Soviet Union

  United States

  Collins, Joe L.

  Colombia

  guerilla activities in

  United Nations arms control

  Colt, Samuel

  Colt firearms

  Communism. See also cold war

  Condon, Paul

  Congo

  Cooper, William J.

  Crane, Dave

  Cruise, Tom

  Cuba

  culture

  de Beer, David

  diamond trade. See also arms trade; drug trade

  Diekmann, Joerg

  Diem, Ngo Dinh

  Dien Bien Phu, Battle of (Vietnam)

  Dirty Harry (film)

  Dobrynski, Andrzej

  Doe, Samuel K.

  domino theory

  dos Santos, Feil

  Dr. Strangelove (film)

  Dragunov, Evgeny

  drug trade. See also arms trade; diamond trade

  arms trade and

  Iran-Contra scandal

  Latin America

  Peru

  Uzi submachine gun

  Duarte, José Napoleon

  Duffney, Bob

  Durant, Mike

  Dutch Army Museum

  East Germany

  Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)

  Egypt

  AK-47

  Rwanda genocide

  weapons marking

  8 Mile (film)

  Eisenhower, Dwight D.

  El Salvador

  Eminem

  Engstfeld, Axel

  Ezell, Ed

  FAL cartridge

  Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN)

  Farell, Loren

  Federov, Vladimir

  Feinstein, Dianne

  FHM magazine

  Financial Times (newspaper)

  Firestone Plantation Company

  Florey, John

  FN-FAL cartridge (Fabrique Nationale-Fusil Automatique Léger)

  Forjaz, Jose

  France

  Rwanda genocide

  Vietnam

  World War II

  Franks, Tommy

  Frontline (TV show)

  Fujimori, Alberto

  Gadhafi, Mu’ammar

  Galili, Israel

  Galil submachine gun

  Garand, John

  Gattaca (film)

  Gatumba refugee camp incident

  Geer, Galen L.

  genocide, Africa

  Germany

  ammunition

  blitzkrieg tactic

  Soviet Union invasion

  submachine guns

  Golding, William

  Goodman, John

  Gorbachev, Mikhail

  Gourevitch, Philip

  Granda, Rodrigo

  Grau, Lester W.

  grease gun (M3 submachine gun)

  Greenleaf, Simon

  Guinea

  Gul, Haji Baz

  Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

  gun control. See also arms trade

  Gun Control Act of 1968

  politics of

  Stockton, California, schoolyard shooting

  terrorism

  United Nations

  Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994

  weapons marking

  Gun Control Act of 1968

  Habersack, Herbert

  Habyarimana, Juvenal

  Hackworth, David H.

  Harkins, Paul

  Hart, Howard

  Hasenfus, Gene

  Hassan, Yusuf

  Heckler & Koch

  Hellfire antitank missiles

  Hezbollah

  Hitler, Adolf

  Ho Chi Minh

  Holbrooke, Richard

  Humvee vehicle

  Hungary

  AK-47

  Soviet invasion of

  Hussein, Saddam

  Hussein, Uday

  Hutu people

  ICE magazine

  Ichord, Richard

  improvised explosive devices (IEDs)

  India

  Interceptor Multi-Threat Body Armor System

  Iran-Contra scandal

  Iran hostage crisis

  Iran-Iraq war

  Iraq war

  AK-47

  conduct of

  initiation of

  opposition to

  U.S. occupation

  Israel

  arms trade

  Nicaragua

  Ivory Coast

  Jackie Brown (film)

  Japan

  Johnson, Lyndon B.

  Johnson, Yormie

  Jolie, Angelina

  Kagame, Paul

  Kalashnikov, Elena

  Kalashnikov, Mikhail T.

  AK-47 design

  biography of

  cartridges

  commercial ventures of

  media and

  personality of

  politics and

  travels of

  U.S. visit of

  World War II

  Kalashnikov, Natasha

  Kalashnikov, Viktor

  Kalashnikov, Yekaterina

  Kalashnikov Joint Stock Vodka Company

  Kalashnikov Weapons M
useum and Exhibition Center (Izhevsk, Russia)

  Kallay, Foday

  Kansai, Aimal

  Kasparov, Gary

  Kennedy, John F.

  Kennedy, Robert F.

  Kenya

  Kerry, John

  Khan, Sardar Mohammed Daoud

  Khe Sanh, siege of (Vietnam)

  Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah

  Khrushchev, Nikita

  Killing Fields, The (film)

  King, Martin Luther, Jr.

  Klare, Michael

  Koltakov, Andrey

  Korean War

  Kouen-Hoven, Gus

  Kubrick, Stanley

  Kurz ammunition

  Kyoto Protocol

  LaPierre, Wayne

  laser weapons marking

  Latin America. See also specific Latin American countries

  arms trade

  Colombia

  drug trade

  Nicaragua

  Peru

  Venezuela

  law enforcement

  AK-47 equipment

  weapons marking

  lawnmower

  Lee-Enfield rifle

  LeMay, Curtis

  Liberia

  Libya

  Livsey, William J., Jr.

  Longbow radar systems

  Lord of the Flies (Golding)

  Lord of War (film)

  Los Angeles Times (newspaper)

  Luxembourg, World War II

  Macdonald, Bobby

  Mackey, Lori

  Makhanu, Maurice

  Mao Tse-tung

  Marken Marketing International (MMI)

  Maschinenkarabiner (Mkb)

  Maschinenpistoles (MP40, German submachine gun, Schmeisser)

  Matasareanu, Emil

  McNamara, Robert S.

  Menutis, Jamie

  M-43 cartridge

  M-14 rifle

  Mine Ban Treaty

  Minin, Leonid

  Mogadishu, Somalia

  M1 Carbine

  M1 Garand (U.S. semiautomatic rifle)

  M1 steel helmet

  Monroe, James

  Montesinos, Vladimiro

  Mozambique

  M-16 rifle

  M3 submachine gun

  museums

  National Defense Authorization Act of 1997

  National Firearms Museum, National Rifle Association (NRA)

  National Rifle Association (NRA)

  Nawroz, Mohammad Yahya

  Nesterov, Azariy

  Netherlands, World War II

  Newsweek (magazine)

  New York Times (newspaper)

  Nhu, Ngo Dinh

  Nicaragua

  Niccol, Andrew

  Nigeria

  Nikonov, Gennady

  Nikonov, Tatiana

  nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), arms control

  North, Oliver L.

  North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

  North Korea

  Ofcansky, Tom

  Olin Mathieson Corporation

  Operation Desert Storm (Persian Gulf War [1991])

  Ordnance Department (U.S.)

  Ortega, Daniel

  Pahlavi, Mohammed Reza Shah

  Pakistan

  Palestinian Liberation Front

  Panama

  Panzer tank

  Pastrana, Andres

  Patton, George

  Perello, Martin

  Persian Gulf War (1991)

  Peru

  Phillips, Larry Eugene, Jr.

  Pig Boards (tests)

  Playboy magazine

  Ploter, Carlos

  Poland

  AK-47

  Nicaragua

  World War II

  Polstar Vodka

  Poly Technologies

  Portman Group

  PPD34/38 (Soviet submachine gun)

  PP Kurz pistol

  PPSh41 (Soviet submachine gun)

  Purdy, Patrick Edward

  Reagan, Ronald

  recoil

  Remington Arms Company

  Remington Model 8

  Republican Guard (Iraqi defense force)

  Reutersward, Carl Fredrik

  Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). See Colombia

  Reyes, Camilo

  Ridgway, Matthew B.

  Roberts, Julia

  Romania, AK-47

  Rosenthal, John

  RPK-74

  Ruger, William

  Rumsfeld, Donald

  Russia. See also Soviet Union

  arms trade

  United Nations arms control

  weapons marking

  Russian Revolution

  Rwanda

  Saiga (hunting gun)

  Sakharov, Andrei

  Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN)

  Sandino, Augusto

  Sankoh, Foday

  Saudi Arabia

  Schmeisser. See Maschinenpistoles (MP40, German submachine gun, Schmeisser)

  Schmeisser, Hugo

  Scott, George C.

  Scud missile

  Secord, Richard V.

  Sevaastyanov, Igor

  Sheikh, Aftab

  Shpagin, Georgy

  Sierra Leone

  Simonov, Sergei

  Singlaub, John K.

  SKS (Soviet rifle)

 

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