Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...weapon McAuliffe was talking about was "nerve gas," long a subject of wild speculation among amateur military strategists. Presumably it would be sprayed over enemy cities by planes in the same way that whole areas are sprayed with mosquito-killing DDT, paralyzing the whole population. Then the attacking army, equipped with protective masks, would march in and take over...
...combat this concept our best weapon should be to give all possible aid and reassurance to all people under the yoke of Communist dictatorship, especially the Russian people themselves, Kerensky maintained...
...falling to separate the people of Russia from their rulers, the United States is branding the whole Russian nation the aggressor of the Cold War. In so doing, we are misusing our best weapon by discouraging the people and driving them, through lack of hope from the West, right into the arms of the Communists, Kerensky continued...
After a rash of scare stories in 1949 about bacteriological warfare, the late Defense Secretary James Forrestal issued a carefully worded official statement. The dangers of germs as a war weapon had been grossly exaggerated, he said, but "an active research program on biological war fare ... is being conducted in the interests of national defense." Last week in Baltimore, Bacteriologist Perrin H. Long of Johns Hopkins Uni versity, addressing doctors interested in civil defense against atom bombs, called bacteriological warfare "bunk." Scientific knowledge of the subject at the moment, he said, does not point to its use as a successful...
...bombs, which could be used only for the mass destruction of populations. Some of us, on the other hand, believing that our people and the other free societies should not be left without the means of defense through the threat of retaliation, support the attempt to construct the new weapon. All of us unite in the prayer that it may never be used...