Word: armament
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...Arnold Wolfers, Percy Corbett, William Fox), all members of the Yale Institute of International Studies, have produced the best overall job yet on the atom's actual political implications. They make it more real by frankly presupposing that the only two powers likely to engage in an atomic-armament race are the U.S. and Russia...
...Driberg, cocky Daily Express columnist (pen name: William Hickey) and leftist M.P., was excited too. Buchman, he protested in the House of Commons, was nothing but a "soapy racketeer who never repudiated his admiration for Hitler and Himmler." Before the war his MRA (Moral Re-Armament) had been surrounded by an odor other than that of sanctity. Buchman's preoccupation with "key men" was believed to have made Hitler desirable in his eyes...
Last week a group of the faithful were rapturously on hand to greet Founder Buchman as he landed to "cure . . . Britain's and the world's ills." Tired and feeble at 67, surrounded by a company of 105 disciples, the Founder's principal armament was a trunkful of plays "that answer the headlines." With these he plans to tour the provinces for several months, then settle down in the Group's newly purchased ?165,000 Westminster Theater...
...atomic bombs . . . announcing officially that this "Damoclean sword" would be kept especially from the U.S., etc. All this would throw our country into a state of alarm which would make the effect of the Pearl Harbor attack seem like a W.C.T.U. picnic. . . . There would be no reconversion- only armament. We would insist that Russia either share the secret or "destroy every atomic bomb, smash every facility for making another," before a basis of unity could be established and the U.N. fulfill its proper function...
...future world neurosis surrounding an armament race, any nation would be just as easily tempted to use it on us. Once this happened there could be no war as we know it today. There could be no retaliation. "The nation that attacks first will win. We could not survive," Wild insisted...