Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...civilized world renounced gas as a weapon of warfare at The Hague in 1899, again at Geneva in 1925. But, after examining the issue realistically, the U.S. declined to sign either agreement...
...really effective in attack, gas must be dropped from airplanes in enormous quantities. A U.S. Chemical Warfare officer summed up last week: "Gas is not a good weapon unless its users have air supremacy, and with air supremacy there is no need...
Guesses at the rocket's length ran from 25 to 80 ft. Launching mechanisms might be as much as 200 ft. long, mounted on mobile railway trucks. The range might be 100 miles or more-certainly, if the weapon exists at all and is effective, it can reach London, 90 miles away. In essence, it would have to be nothing more than an elaboration of rocket weapons already in use by both sides. A published fact: the U.S. has at least two experts (Drs. Theodore von Karman and Frank J. Malina) working on rocket propulsion...
...hour later, while Allied planes patrolled above and warships lobbed in shells from the sea, two Ducks (amphibious trucks) led the main landing on to Orange Beach. Armed with a newly installed weapon, the Ducks raked the shore, cleared a way for Buffaloes (amphibious tanks), then Alligators (amphibious, troop-carrying tractors...
Mother Advocate made good her threat to retaliate on those Bow Street boys with a secret weapon, in a deceptive attack last evening on the Poon Building, Yank Levy style. The secret weapon was unmasked and its effects gleam brightly on the portals to the Lampoon...