It features interviews with prominent weapons designers, academics, and retired Pentagon officials, as well as some memorable archival footage.
Even though Mr. Gates canceled a number of prominent weapons programs last year, the department's budgets have continued to rise under President Obama, to $708 billion proposed for next year, including the costs of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
The F-22, the world's costliest fighter jet, is the most prominent weapons system that Mr. Obama wants to cancel or cut in his plan to rein in military spending.
On Wednesday, the prominent jurist Lord Hutton will render his judgment on whether Mr. Blair misled the public on the threat from Iraq, and whether the prime minister's aides suborned the intelligence agencies to exaggerate evidence or contributed to the circumstances that led a prominent weapons scientist, David Kelly, to commit suicide.
Their aim was to find the most prominent chemical weapon in each plant, whether that weapon was directed against insects that might want to eat the plant, bacteria and fungi that might want to infect it, or other plants that might compete for space, water, nutrients and light.
The Crusader, a mobile, rapid-firing howitzer that can shoot 155mm shells up to 31 miles, is the most prominent Pentagon weapons program to face cancellation since 1991, when Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney killed the Navy's A-12 fighter jet program.
There was what seemed a self-fantasized posse of six this month at a table in a Champps restaurant, their weapons prominent as pepper mills.
During the late 1950s, Libby and physicist Edward Teller, both committed to the Cold War and both prominent advocates of nuclear weapons testing, opposed Nobel chemistry and peace laureate Linus Pauling's petition for a ban on nuclear weapons.
Prominent among the European weapons were FN FAL battle rifles from Belgium, which allowed an unofficial Rhodesian trade delegation to operate quietly in spite of the sanctions.
Griffis found the background interesting, namely Keraptis having stolen the magical weapons from prominent dealers, and the player having been hired to get them back, with only a cryptic poem to help.
