Examines Saddam Hussein's rise to power in Iraq and discusses the Iran-Iraq War, the Persian Gulf War, the United Nations' efforts to disarm Iraq, and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Profiles three Soviet cosmonauts and four American astronauts who accomplished "firsts" for their nations: Yuri Gagarin, Valentina Tereshkova, Alexei Leonov, Wally Schirra, Neil Armstrong, John Young, and Eileen Collins.
Profiles the lives and accomplishments of seven key Secretaries of War, Navy, and Defense: Edwin Stanton, Benjamin Tracy, Elihu Root, Henry Stimson, James Forrestal, Robert McNamara, and Caspar Weinberger.
Examines the lives and accomplishments of eight secretaries of state: John Quincy Adams, William Seward, John Hay, Charles Evans Hughes, Dean Acheson, John Foster Dulles, Henry Kissinger, and James Baker.
Traces the development of weapons through the lives of such inventors and their inventions as David Bushnell and the submarine, Samuel Colt and the revolver, John Ericsson and the battleship, Hiram Maxim and the machine gun, and Ernest Swinton and the tank.
