few weeks before the Gulf War, the Library started receiving requests from Iraq on the subject of large rail-guns. Naturally we happily satisfied the requests but imagine our suprise when they used the information to build a huge gun up the side of a mountain and launch missiles at Israel. Some military people to whom I told this tale were really interested...

It must be stated that the information that we supplied was freely available unclassified US army documents and we weren't to know were we...