Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Outproducing the enemy is not much advantage in atomic warfare. Two hundred bombs may be better than 100, but 10,000 is no better than 5,000, because 5,000 would destroy all important targets in a country. Consequently, a small, relatively poor nation might defeat a larger, richer nation...
...France. It is a step in the direction of socialism." Like most of his school, Author Scott believes that Europe's Communist parties work on their own without benefit of Moscow guidance, that Russia is rapidly becoming more conservative. He also believes that another world war would destroy civilization, that only harmonious U.S.-Russian relations can prevent such a war, that Russian aggressive policies are somehow caused by the fact that in the U.S. people are always grossly hurting Russian feelings. In a chapter called Getting Along with Russia, Scott offers some...
Other scientists, perhaps a little closer to earth than Dr. Einstein, had pretty well demonstrated that the only "secret"' was the manufacturing process, and that it could not be kept very long. Having worked so hard to destroy the fallacy, they took a poor view of the master's repeated reference to "the secret." On his suggestion that a committee of three settle everything, practical internationalists maintained a polite silence...
...responsible scientists objected to the basic purpose of the May-Johnson bill. Virtually all of them agreed that atomic energy was a frightful force which might, in improper hands, destroy the human race. But they hoped that Congress would be careful. Said one: "Scientific research is like a porcelain egg. Clutch it too tightly, it shatters - and you have nothing...
...other end of the scale of danger, General Electric's famed Dr. Irving Langmuir told a Senate committee that the Russians, in ten or 20 years, might be able to push a button and thereby destroy "not only our cities, but every man, woman and child in the United States...