Word: armament
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...total free world, we might have a peculiar form of isolationism: each nation crouched behind--not geographic--but nuclear boundaries and refusing the less destructive but more practical use of conventional forces. Britain has a very real faith in the power of nuclear deterrents, yet the road of preventive armament is a very narrow and dangerous one, and one which history proves more often wrong than right...
Some 60% of the total expenses fall into one huge category: defense, including atomic energy and foreign military aid. The ending of the Korean war, along with increased adoption of nuclear weapons, made possible manpower cuts that reduced defense spending in 1954 and again in 1955, but then rising armament costs inevitably began pushing the total upward...
...Disarmament. The Administration is willing to enter into any "reliable agreement" to reduce armament levels and "mutually control the outer-space missile and satellite development...
...arms buildup of Korea, peacetime capital outlays passed military spending, despite an arms budget of $36 billion in 1956. It was a final answer to foreign critics such as Australian Economist Colin Clark, who had called the U.S. boom a depression-prone economy, propped up only by armament spending...
...everyday military planning, the brainy brass of the U.S. Army whistled in low alarm. If nations were going to fight wars by trading off hydrogen payloads, then the Army was going to have a hard time justifying a budget for a 1,500,000-man ground force and the armament that goes with it. The Army's answer was to lobby hard-on contradictory lines: 1) the world will probably succumb to an atomic stalemate, hence the U.S. will need a conventional army which for maximum efficiency will need its own air arm; 2) the airplane will soon...