The Gun

criticisms of, 19, 244–45

death of, 192, 212, 217, 221, 343

Hungarian policy and, 221–22, 226

Kalashnikov on, 212–13, 405

Kalashnikov’s social persecution and, 245

personality cult of, 156, 182, 213, 244–45

purges of, 159, 168, 210, 212–13, 348

Soviet atomic bomb test and, 1–2

submachine gun and, 168

World War II and, 146, 153, 156–57, 168, 175–76, 185, 212, 358

State Department, U.S., 368, 413

Statistical Corporation (Stage), 246

Sten gun, 258, 355

Stewart, Herbert, 78–81

Stockfisch, Jacob, 305

Stoner, Eugene, 275–77, 404, 444n

AR-15 and, 276–77, 292–93

Stoner 63, 292–93

sturmgewehr, 164–67, 187, 199, 200, 207, 249–50, 253–54, 257, 384n

submachine guns, 3, 163, 179–85, 256–58, 363n

and AK-47’s design and development, 145

AK-47’s precursors and, 155

ammunition of, 139, 165, 168–69, 181, 228–29, 233–35

in Hungarian revolution, 219

Kalashnikov’s designs for, 181–84

Soviet Army and, 168–69, 180–82, 184–85, 187–88, 199, 249, 357

Soviet production of, 157, 168

stockpiling of, 355

U.S. laws on, 236

in World War I, 228, 233, 236

in World War II, 168–69, 179–80, 182, 185

see also automatic and assault rifles; specific submachine guns

Sudan, Sudanese, 371–73

and AK-type rifle production and distribution, 13, 377, 387

British reconquest of, 97, 102, 124

in fighting at Omdurman, 97–102

Islamic rebellion in, 78–81

LRA and, 372–73, 376–77, 380, 387

Sudayev, Aleksei I., 155–56, 186–87, 192

Suhl, 139, 163, 246–48

Sullivan, George, 274

Supreme Soviet, 148, 158, 211–12, 344

Surikov, Colonel, 195

Suslov, Mikhail, 223

Sutherland, Thomas A., 62

SVD (Snaiperskaya Vintovka Dragunova), 16, 166n, 244, 364, 436n

Svirnov, Sergei, 360

Sweden, 51, 86, 89, 355

Switzerland, 246, 400

Symon, Robert R., 76

systems analysis, 271, 288, 296

T

T44, 276

Tabuk, 11, 16

Tajikistan, 366

Talbott, William H., 47

Taliban, 380, 386, 388, 396

Tanga, battle of, 119–21, 426n

Tanzania, 119, 356

Taubin, Yakov G., 158–59

Taylor, Charles, 370–71

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr, 403

terminal ballistics, 199–200, 284, 288, 439n

terrorists, terrorism, 27, 191, 365, 384–85

and AK and AK-type rifle production and distribution, 5, 9–11, 13, 203, 268, 338–40, 349–52, 361, 380, 408– 10, 413

in Beslan, 340, 385

Israelis targeted by, 339, 340n, 349–52, 358, 443n

at Munich Olympics, 337–40, 350–52, 443n

on September 11, 2001, 11, 396

and symbolism of AK assault rifles, 384

and Thompson submachine gun production and distribution, 235

training and, 11, 380, 387

weapons pilfering and, 368

Tet Offensive, 332, 401

Thompson, John T., 228–34

ammunition testing of, 229–33, 438n–39n

Thompson submachine gun designed and developed by, 139, 228–29, 233, 236

and Thompson submachine gun production and distribution, 233–34, 236

Thompson submachine gun:

comparisons between AK-47 and, 236

design and development of, 139, 228–29, 233, 236

marketing of, 234

production and distribution of, 199, 233–36, 279

prototypes of, 233

reputation of, 235–36, 279

size and weight of, 199, 228

Tiedemann, Adolf von, 102

Times of London, 92

Tito (Josip Broz), 9, 157, 250

Tokarev, Fedor V., 160, 180, 186–87, 199

Tomakowski, Thomas C., 324

tracer rounds, 137

Tribuna, 210n

Trotsky, Leon, 144, 193, 205

Tukhachevsky, Mikhail N., 158–59