Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...reporter picked up a presidential remark that every weapon the U.S. had would be made available to General MacArthur: "Mr. President," he declared, "you said that means every weapon that we have. Does that mean that there is active consideration of the use of the atomic bomb...
There has always been, the President replied. He didn't want to see it used, he said as he sadly shook his head. It is a terrible weapon; it should not be used on innocent men, women & children who have nothing to do with this military aggression. That, he said, was what happened when the bomb was used...
...Weapon. A hunter needs a weapon. The formidable one that Mao bore, the Chinese Red army, had been forged with Russian connivance in a manner that the West did not yet widely comprehend...
...million has been obligated for electronics, but Admiral and Zenith, two of the largest television manufacturers, have no war orders. One manufacturer, who took over a huge war-surplus plant on a rush war job of the highest urgency, had to wait two months for the blueprints of the weapon he was to make...
Obsolete Pilots. Nevertheless, Kindelberger thinks the piloted airplane itself is rapidly heading toward obsolescence as a military weapon; he regards the guided missile as the freshest egg in the basket and believes that North American is its leading mother hen. At the Government's test site at Alamogordo, N. Mex., North American's "NATIV" (North American Test Instrument Vehicle) has soared ten miles high at supersonic speeds. His aerophysics laboratory at Downey, Calif, is ready for actual production of missiles controlled from ground to ground...