Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pine-paneled, second-floor office, surrounded by statues of the horses he loves, David Lilienthal was doing his best to sever the connection once & for all. He was trying, with every hope of success, to create the most destructive weapon in the world-an atomic bomb even bigger than the bomb which had wiped out Nagasaki and Hiroshima just two years...
...means abandoned all hope of international accord. In the U.N., U.S. Atomic Representative Frederick Osborn would continue to press the U.S. plan for international atomic control. But as long as Russia continued to block that plan, it was David Lilienthal's job to build the most destructive atomic weapon known to mankind...
...single report from his .38-cal. revolver, then the roar of four shotguns in the hands of prison guards. Convicts scattered frantically, flopping to the ground, diving under the buildings for cover. One made the barbed-wire-topped fence before a cursing guard, kicking loose a jam in his weapon, blasted him down with a load of buckshot...
...Papa. Food could not move, or be sold, in New York without the approval of bright-eyed Mr. Papa, president of the food-hauling local of the A.F.L. Teamsters Union. Mr. Papa was glad to tell the committee just how he controlled the $300 million-a-year business. His weapon, of course, was union contracts, which he writes himself. These contracts give him the power to force any food dealer out of business by merely withdrawing his truckmen...
...drunks and mashers. Her captain worried about her. "She has to take chances with all those morons," he said. But Alice did not worry. "I feel the revolver is part of me," she explained, primly. "At no time do I feel uncomfortable in darkest streets because I have the weapon I look upon as my friend...