Word: dispersionism
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Missiles have a highly pertinent advantage over bombers, which need huge runways and surrounding installations. For the vast dispersion possibilities of missile launchers will greatly increase the reflex potential of any nation that is attacked.
"Because of the dispersion of the force's ships and the range of its weapons, such a carrier force could exert a tight and exclusive control over an area of 60,000 square miles-the six New England states rearranged into a circle 275 miles in diameter . . . Nuclear warheads...
The dispersion of industry is another big factor in the growth of corporate fleets. Before 1940, nearly half of all American industrial plants were in cities of more than 100,000 population; now only one-third are. Moreover, 30% of new plants established since 1940 are in towns of 10...
Today is the first day of the ninth month since the eleven o'clock parietal rules came to the Houses. For those who warned this liberty would cause excessive dispersion of wild oats, it was a disillusioning spring. A careful check has revealed no rise in the rates of liquor...
A string of angry little insurrections-some of them with the support of dissidents in the armed forces-flared across Venezuela last week. They were speedily quenched by Colonel Marcos Pérez Jiménez and his ruling military junta. The timing and dispersion suggested that a projected nationwide...