Word: armament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flanders stressed the importance of a strong air force but insisted that it would be a grave error for this nation to engage the Soviets in an armament race. Such a venture would be a "costly and destructive defensive operation...
...senator argued that the only alternative to strong armament lies in getting across the truth about United States intentions to the Russian people...
...must remember that are armament race accelerates itself and has never yet brought peace," he said. "It is a costly and destructive defensive operation without positive values for achieving peace. Its justification is that a line of defense may be held until means of achieving peace have been devised...
Just over a week ago, President Truman regretfully accepted Lilienthal's resignation. This loss leaves the AEC looking for a chairman to carry it through what will probably be a tremendous period of expansion. We are now committed to an atomic armament race until some sort of an international control is created. This means increased production and hopped-up bombs; rumors of a six-times-more-powerful-than-Nagasaki weapon have been indirectly confirmed by the forthcoming Eniwetok tests. Electric generators run by atomic piles are well off the drawing boards; so are propulsion units for ships and even aircraft...
...Benelux countries would get the same sort of equipment as France, but less of it. Norway, closest to Russia, would get radar equipment and some army supplies. Denmark would be given antiaircraft guns and radar for the defense of her air bases. Italy, her armament limited by treaty, would get little more than rifles. Most MAP countries needed (and would get) minelayers, minesweepers and harbor-defense equipment...