A. J. Minnich,1 G. Chen,2,* S. Mansoor,3 and B. S. Yilbas3 1Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91106, USA 2Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA 3Department of Mechanical Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabi...

Since the introduction of the term “wound ballistics”[1,2] indicating the study of the wounding mechanisms of missiles [3], extensive experimental research on this field has beenconductedby investigators with a military background [4-7]. In the context of wound ballistics, the term missile is used to denote various types of small projectiles, such as bullets and fragments, that have enough kine...

Aaron Karp is Senior Faculty Associate with the Graduate Programs in International Studies at Old Dominion University and Assistant Professor at the US Armed Forces Staff College. He is the author of Ballistic Missile Proliferation: The Politics and Technics (Oxford University Press, 1996). This essay is based on a presentation at the United Nations Regional Disarmament Meeting in the Asia-Paci...