HUMANS HAVE BEEN hurling projectiles at one another-with varying degrees of accuracy-since we developed opposable thumbs. But it was only m the past 100-odd years that we created missiles that can steer themselves. We spent the past century of trial and error in an endless attempt to throw bigger bombs farther and more precisely. As technology improved, weapons graduated from wire-guided torpedoes to catapulted bombers to independent cruise missiles. These are some of the most influential steps along the way.
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