Word: weaponed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group approved the largest defense appropriation in Soviet peacetime history: 17.7 billion rubles ($19.7 billion). Actually, that figure represents only a fraction of the actual outlay. It covers only the actual housekeeping costs of the Soviet Union's military forces, ammunition purchases and the acquisition of light conventional weapons. The Soviets routinely disguise under other headings their spending for important weaponry. Outlays for nuclear-weapon research and production that run into the billions are hidden under appropriations for the Ministry of Medium Machinery Production. Similarly, the expenditures for new aircraft and warships are dispersed among budgets for nonmilitary ministries...
...students whose bursar's cards were collected at Thursday's anti-ROTC sit-in adopted a resolution last night criticizing the administration for "using disciplinary action as a political weapon...
...nursing home, battled so many causes to the finish that the American conscience and the quality of American life were permanently affected by his concern, courage and compassion. And, more than six decades before today's politics of protest and confrontation, Author Sinclair won his crusades with no weapon more lethal than a powerful and prolific...
Although Russia and the U.S. recognized the role that rockets could eventually play in space exploration, both nations were more immediately concerned about arming themselves with the most devastating military weapon: the nuclear-tipped ballistic missile. Because U.S. scientists had already begun to master the art of packing enormous power into small nuclear warheads, the Redstone, Jupiter and Atlas missiles designed to carry them were only of modest size. The Russians, who were behind in nuclear technology, had only more primitive and massive warheads to use; they were forced to build enormous rockets to loft them. But the Soviet...
...created when gamma rays from an exploding weapon strike electrons in the surrounding air, causing them to move rapidly away from the center of the burst. Because of the shape of the warhead, the irregularity of the atmosphere or the proximity of the explosion to the earth, the pattern of the outward-speeding electrons is seldom symmetrical; the overall effect is similar to that caused by a flow of accelerating electrons in only one direction...