Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congress in 1946 to take over the Army's atomic energy program. The new commission inherited a uranium plant at Oak Ridge, military laboratories at Los Angeles, a research program mainly directed towards weapon development, and a small supply of atomic bombs. David E. Lilienthal was appointed chairman; the Senate confirmed his appointment after a bitter and vindictive fight...
...chairman to carry it through what will probably be a tremendous period of expansion. We are now committed to an atomic armament race until some sort of an international control is created. This means increased production and hopped-up bombs; rumors of a six-times-more-powerful-than-Nagasaki weapon have been indirectly confirmed by the forthcoming Eniwetok tests. Electric generators run by atomic piles are well off the drawing boards; so are propulsion units for ships and even aircraft. Some laboratories are gingerly experimenting with radioactive gas as a weapon...
...this session of the U.N. in September, after he had belabored the U.S. and Britain for trying to start an atomic war. It proposed: 1) that the assembly condemn "preparations for war" being made by the two western nations; 2) that the assembly outlaw the atomic bomb as a weapon; and 3) that the assembly request the Big Five (U. S., Britain, France, China, and Russia) to make a new non-aggression pact...
...have got it right from his neighbors that he has the reputation of being a gunman and in this particular case he ... had a very beautiful weapon and was . . . prepared to do the work of a gunman. He was charged on two other occasions with doing the work of a gunman and, somehow or other, got out of it. Now I commit him to the penitentiary for one year...
...debates, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky has led before his resigned listeners a never-ending proverb-and-parable parade of sly foxes, bad wolves, innocent lambs, triumphant virtues and defeated vices. Last week, Britain's smart, literate Hector McNeil rose to smite the master with his own weapon...