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Humankind has always been caught in a sort of arms race, graduating from fist, to stick, to knife, to gun, to nuclear weapons, anything to get the upper hand on the enemy. During the dark days of World War II, Nazi Germany regularly pursued all manner of new weapons technology that exhibited some of the