The art of war, according to Sun Tzu's 2,000-year-old text of the same name, is largely a matter of strategy, but the science of war begins squarely with weapons. Physics and engineering - and more often today, chemistry and biology - drive the creation of new military tools, from smart bombs and stealth aircraft to nerve gases and plastic explosives.
In the Weapons issue, scientists share their expertise on one terror of the ancient battlefield, the trebuchet, as well as several modern-day scourges, including land mines, third world submarines and biological arms. Additional articles feature in-depth research by staff editors on more futuristic threats - in the form of swift subsea systems and so-called non-lethal weapons. - the Editors

The Sea Wolf by Jack London
" The danger lay in the heavy fog which blanketed the bay, and of which, as a landsman, I had little apprehension " This is the first line that the listener hears in this tale of a man uprooted and thrust into the unfamiliar and dangerous world of the sealing sailor.

Humphrey Van Weyden, a San Francisco sophisticate and an intellectual finds himself the captive voyager aboard the Ghost, captained by the brutal and barbaric Wolf Larsen. The desperate character of Van Weyden's voyage is defined by the fact that he is out of his element, in unimaginable peril, and the slave of this cynical and wild soul, Larsen. The rights of man vanish as the coast of California vanishes over the horizon.

Almost immediately, the slave plots his freedom - and must confront the weakness in his soul, mind and body. Generations have been spellbound by this harrowing story of danger on the sea, psychological confrontation, and the dual nature of humankind.

  Частотный словарь английского языка
English Words Frequency List
by Adam Kilgarriff
Список из 6318 слов без перевода, расположенных в порядке «от частого к редкому».
Рядом с каждым словом указана часть речи. Слова с двойным упортреблением (существительное и глагол) указаны в спике 2 раза, один раз как существительное, второй раз как глагол. Автор списка и методики - Adam Kilgarriff. Эта методика рассчета частотности использовалась при составлении Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English , 3rd edition.
There is a lemmatised frequency list for the 6,318 words with more than 800 occurrences in the whole 100M-word BNC. The definition of a 'word' approximates to a headword in an EFL dictionary such as Longman's Dictionary of Contemporary English: so, eg, nominal and verbal "help" are listed separately, and the count for verbal "help" is the sum of counts for verbal 'help', 'helps', 'helping', 'helped'.