The latest (November) issue of WIRED magazine just came out. It features an three-part article on the Origins, Engineering, and Impact of the AK-47, which the author proclaims "is the most deadly--and disruptive--technology of the past century."

It doesn't look like WIRED has the article available on its web-site yet, but I did find the author's web-site, where he's hocking his new book that just came out last week:

http://cjchivers.com/

Some of you may be interested in the book...