Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...court records describe the dark little drama-how the defendant ran from two suspicious policemen and threw his pistol into a lot, how he was caught, dragged back, and how the weapon was found. They tell of his pleas for mercy, made at first in Italian through a court interpreter, and finally in English, and they repeat the words of a forgotten judge...
...Vannevar Bush, boss of all U.S. scientists who worked for the Government in World War II, summarizes the feelings of the layman toward the newest weapons in the world's arsenals. In a book to be published next week-Modern Arms and Free Men (Simon & Schuster; $3.50)- he devotes himself to the job of illuminating some of the dim corners of science's weapon shop...
...much to be feared as any weapon in the arsenal, says Dr. Bush, is the submarine, now able to stay submerged for long periods "with only a small end of a pipe [the schnorkel] sticking out like a swimmer breathing through a straw," able to outrun pursuers and overtake fast convoys, and carrying long-range homing torpedoes which could be fired from a point beyond the earshot of sonar. The Nazis had been a few months too late with their undersea engine of destruction. But there it is now, says Bush, a heritage of German ingenuity: "one of our greatest...
...easy as some optimists like to think, nor as dire as others predict. "For a long time to come," at least, there would not be fleets of fast and high-flying intercontinental bombers. The atom bomb would be dropped, but it is not the abso lute weapon it has been said to be. It is not even as devastating as popularly supposed, says Bush. The costs of manufacturing and of delivering it would be so vast that they might well exhaust a nation before it had struck a winning blow...
Idle Hands. In San Diego, Sailor David S. McKinley, arrested for carrying a weapon made of iron bolts wrapped with adhesive tape, explained: "I didn't have anything to do on the ship one day, so I made this blackjack...