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World's deadliest inventor: Mikhail Kalashnikov and his AK-47

  • Written by Richard Gunderman, Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
World's deadliest inventor: Mikhail Kalashnikov and his AK-47The inventor with his eponymous weapon.AP Photo/Vladimir Vyatkin

What is the deadliest weapon of the 20th century?

Perhaps you think first of the atomic bomb, estimated to have killed as many as 200,000 people when the United States dropped two on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

But another weapon is responsible for far more...

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