About the book: 1967 / The book by a team of authors in a lively, popular form talks about the important role physics plays in modern military affairs, how it is used achievements for the further development of nuclear missile weapons, increasing the combat capabilities of the ground forces, aviation and navy. The authors show that without knowledge of the basics of physics it is now impossible to fruitfully study and skillfully use military equipment and weapons, to see in which direction their progress is going. Meeting the physical laws known from school, the reader will learn what interesting and often unusual results scientists and engineers achieve by using these laws to solve complex problems of modern combat. The reader will become acquainted with the latest military-technical achievements, born on the basis of the use of the successes of physics, its close contact with technical sciences. Editor-compiler engineer-lieutenant colonel Zhukov V.N..