CHAPTER 1 the secrecy WEAPON On the battlefield fighting forces look for any means necessary to defeat their enemy while taking as few losses as possible On today’s battlefields it is not the bigger or braver army that gets the upper hand it is the army with the most technologically advanced weapons and defenses To have this advantage armies go to great lengths to keep their scientific breakthroughs a secret SECRET WEAPONS Ever since gunpowder was first used to fire weapons in tenth-century China inventing new weapons and keeping the new inventions secret has been a key part of military planning Today gunpowder is a thing of the past except in fireworks Weapons currently in development make use of scientific breakthroughs that are so new only a few people understand them These breakthroughs include high-energy beams of particles and sonic assaults which use sound to injure or confuse the enemy battlefield can be avoided by Injury on the using secrecy and surprise against an enemy force 4
SECRETS ON THE BATTLEFIELD In addition to building weapons the latest technology can help keep fighting forces informed and protect their secrets Powerful computers are used to code messages to keep them secret from the enemy Other tactics used to fool the enemy include decoys and camouflage Militaries are building bigger and better decoys to draw enemy soldiers out into the open and finding extraordinary ways to camouflage soldiers and equipment They are also using high-tech science to break enemy codes defeat enemy decoys and see through camouflage DARK SCIENCE SECRETS In the 1960s the United States military built a secret base called Camp Century under the ice in Greenland Officially Camp Century was a science station but in reality it hid a deeper secret In Project Iceworm the U S military dug tunnels into the ice as part of a plan to store medium range ballistic missiles to use against Russia It proved too difficult to build such a base however and Project Iceworm was abandoned in 1967 The United States thought the ice would keep the project hidden forever but today the Greenland ice is melting due to climate change This is revealing the base and the secrets that the U S military left behind This 1965 top secret plan shows the network of ice tunnels at Camp Century which were used to hide long range missiles 5
