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Bruno Mars would catch one for you. Steve Rogers jumped onto one before becoming Captain America. And aside from horseshoes, it’s the only throwable object where being close counts. It is, of course, the hand grenade. A staple of real armies and fictional action heroes the world over, these palm-sized balls of destruction are the ideal means of clearing out a room, trench, foxhole, or bunker ahead of a heroic assault. But while today these weapons are an indispensable part of every infantryman’s arsenal, this was not always the case, and the hand grenade in its modern form is only a little over a century old – though the basic concept is much, much older. From medieval castle sieges to the trenches of the Great War to the modern battlefield, this is a brief history of the hand grenade.

Author: Gilles Messier
Producer: Caden Nielsen
Host: Daven Hiskey
Editor: Daven Hiskey