Word: bombe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...against the U.S. By 1949, they think, Russia will probably have guided missiles, armed with a one-ton warhead, with a range of 3,000 miles. By 1952 disease-tipped bacterial weapons may be practical. Any time after 1952, by their estimates, Russia is very likely to have the Bomb...
Stalemate. The U.S. holds three massive military advantages: the atom bomb; undisputed control of the sea; industrial power which can be turned to war with a speed and efficiency that no nation can duplicate. It also has 14 million battle-trained Army & Navy veterans; their availability for battle service will drop rapidly with the passage of time. In five years, less than half will be usable...
...some new aircraft:* the rocket-propelled Bell XS-1 (TIME, Dec. 23), designed to reach a supersonic 1,000 m.p.h.; the Navy's carrier-based XFJ-1 jet fighter; Consolidated Vultee's gigantic six-motored B-36, the "Flying Cigar," which can carry a 10,000-lb. bomb load 5,000 miles and return to base; Consolidated's needle-slim XB-46, the Northrop XB-35 Flying Wing, now being adapted to jet propulsion...
...time the planners' "year of crisis" comes, Ike Eisenhower and the present commanders of other services will be gone. Sometime next fall, the Veterans Administration's General Omar Bradley will probably take over Ike's job. Atlantic Fleet Commander William ("Spike") Blandy, who ran the Bikini bomb tests, will probably replace Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz as Chief of Naval Operations. Lieutenant General Hoyt Vandenberg, former C.I.G. head, now replacing General Ira Eaker as deputy chief of air, is slated to step into Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz's shoes sometime next winter; the Marines' Major General Graves...
...says Colonel McCutcheon, produces at least one new weapon, which usually appears too late to get in its full effect. The airplane, used in World War I, dominated World War II. The most promising new weapons of World War II were the German V-1 and V2. (The atom bomb, in the military man's book, is not a complete weapon at all, but only a super-explosive, to be lugged to the target by aircraft and perhaps, later, by directed missiles...