Word: superweapons
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...Soviets suddenly abrogated the treaty and started testings without attempt at concealment? McNamara, again, was reassuring: "The consensus is that the Soviets could not in a single series of tests, however carefully planned, achieve a significant or permanent lead in the strategic field, much less a 'superweapon' capable of neutralizing our deterrent force." More important, McNamara promised that the U.S. would maintain "the vitality of our weapons laboratories" and "the administrative and logistic capabilities required to conduct a test series in any environment...
...procedure that prohibits the use of defensive atomic weapons without a
presidential order? As the warmaking prowess of the enemy advances and
consequently shortens the reaction time needed for the-U.S. to defend
and retaliate, continental-defense commanders believe they should be
authorized to use any superweapon in the U.S. arsenal at an instant's
notice.
Last week, British sources announced that Dr. Hahn and some ten other German scientists had been living on a farm 40 miles outside of London. Their answers to questioning had shown that, despite Hitler's frantic calls for a superweapon, German science had lagged three years behind the Allies in developing atomic discoveries...