Word: armament
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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...
...bigger, more powerful infantry weapon is known as the Armalite (for "light armament"). Firing a .308-cal. round, it has the hitting power and range of the Springfield T 44 and the Belgian F.N. but weighs only 6.8 pounds because it is made of lightweight aluminum alloy and plastics, is so soundly constructed that it sacrifices neither accuracy nor sturdiness. Unlike almost any other rifle, the fully automatic Armalite can be manufactured on an assembly-line basis; it discards the traditional drilled steel barrel for a barrel liner made of stainless steel tubing, and swaged, i.e., forced by machine, into...