The Gun

Tunisia, Tunis, 56, 349

Tupolev, Andrei N., 158

Turkestan–Siberian Railway, 174

Turkey, 42, 52, 56, 367

Type 30, 116

Type 56, 15–16, 217, 265n, 309, 381

Type 58, 16

Type 68, 16

U

Uganda, 371–81

and AK and AK-type rifle distribution, 9, 13, 354, 356–58, 367, 371, 381

Amin’s coup in, 356

child soldiers in, 337, 372–73, 376–79

illegal weapons transfers to, 371

Karamojong tribe of, 357

LRA in, 337, 372–80

purchase prices of AK-47s in, 381

Sinia Brigade in, 372

Ukraine, 365, 412

weapons pilfering in, 368–71

weapons stockpiling in, 343–44, 368

in World War II, 157, 174–75

Ulundi, fighting at, 62–64, 83, 87, 124

Underwood, Herbert P., 300

Union Repeating Gun:

demonstrations of, 30, 35–37

design of, 28–30, 35, 420n

patent of, 35, 420n

Union Stock Yards, 231–33

United Nations, 14, 381

on human costs of AK rifles, 387

illegal-arms transfers and, 370

United States, 4–7, 12–15, 109, 132, 206, 352–56, 400–402, 417n

in Afghanistan, 378n, 386

AK-46’s design and, 192

and AK-47’s design and development, 12, 151, 204, 402

and AK rifle’s production and distribution, 13–14, 251, 256–57, 349, 359, 363–64, 402, 411, 435n

arms database of, 20

arms-design failures of, 6–7, 251, 254–55, 259, 268–69, 273–74, 363

Constitution of, 17–18

Hungarian revolution and, 226, 237

illegal-arms transfers and, 371

industrial revolution in, 6, 77

Iraqi Kurds and, 388

Kalashnikov on, 405–6, 444n

in Korean War, 264, 406

laws on automatic and assault rifles in, 14–15, 18, 236

machine guns used by, 126–27, 255

Mahmoud’s medical treatment in, 397–98

Maxim gun produced in, 89

Maxim’s racism and, 105–6

nuclear weapons programs of, 1, 4–5, 144, 272

Philippines invaded by, 104, 111, 252

and purchase prices of AK rifles, 381, 383

rifle cartridges of, 161, 166–67, 169–70

Russo-Japanese War and, 116–17

in search for reliable automatic rifle, 6–7, 20, 253–54, 256, 270, 272–76, 280, 283–94, 360, 438n, 441–42n

Soviet arms race with, 153, 169, 253–54, 256, 259, 272–73, 276, 353

Thompson submachine guns developed, produced, and distributed in, 139, 199, 233–34, 237

in Vietnam, 5, 9, 263–68, 270–72, 280–83, 285n, 294, 296, 298–308, 310–25, 327–36, 353, 356, 401, 415, 444n

weapons stockpiling and, 343–44, 410–11

in World War I, 251–52, 255

in World War II, 199, 253–54, 264, 270, 281, 295, 334, 344

United States Electric Lighting Company, 74–75

United States Infantry Board, 276

Ustinov, Dmitri F., 211–12, 358–59

V

Vance, Cyrus R., 272–73, 280, 283, 288–90

Vandenburgh, Origen, 28, 55, 160

Vandenburgh gun, 28, 43, 160

van der Steur, A. W., 258

Velvet Revolution, 365

Venezuela, 12, 355

Verdun, Battle of, 131

Versailles, Treaty of, 140, 162, 228, 246

Vickers, Albert, 76, 89, 129

Vickers gun, 126, 129, 138

Vien, Cao Van, 282

Vienna, 74

Gatling gun tests in, 40–44

Maxim gun tests in, 83, 86

Vietnam, Vietnam War, 5–6, 263–72, 294–336, 419n

AK-47s in, 9, 13, 21, 265–67, 270, 272, 294–95, 308–9, 313, 317, 324, 332, 335–36, 340–41, 356, 363, 401, 406, 444n

ammunition in, 264–65, 271, 285n

AR-15s in, 270–71, 280–83, 285n

bombing North Vietnam in, 294

casualties in, 264–66, 268, 282–83, 294, 300, 303, 311, 313–15, 317–18, 321–24, 330, 333, 335, 401, 439n, 444n

Chervenak’s letter and, 321–24, 327–28, 442n

Hill Fights in, 310–14, 319, 322

M-16s in, 263–64, 267–69, 271, 294, 296–308, 310–35, 353, 356, 415, 441n, 442n–43n

Marines in, 6, 9, 263–68, 271, 296, 306–7, 310–25, 327–29, 332–33, 335–36, 356

Operation Attleboro in, 302

Operation Bear Chain in, 264, 318, 329