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Word: weaponeering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canada," said Dr. Mackenzie, "is not interested in building bombs. We have never known anything about the construction of bombs. . . . We do not have the industrial capacity to make bombs in great numbers, and no country can think of building a weapon of which it will have only one or two. Could we go to war with a single atom bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: ATOMIC ACTIVITY | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

...Psychological Weapon." Henry Stimson searched his soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: LEAST ABHORRENT CHOICE | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

Resistance would be fanatical. It would be necessary to leave the Japanese Islands "even more thoroughly destroyed" than Germany. Continued B-29 fire raids would wreak more damage than any atomic raids. But "the atomic bomb was more than a weapon of terrible destruction; it was a psychological weapon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: LEAST ABHORRENT CHOICE | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

...solution: abolish all three services, have one defense force more & more dependent on science, "which would show no more regret when it relinquishes an older weapon than a scientist shows when a hypothesis is exploded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: Apoplectic Advice | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

...parts of an atomic bomb . . . should not be brought in bit by bit by seemingly innocent people and assembled anywhere where cover can be found, in an embassy, attic, lodging or in a ship in harbor." Many atomic authorities would agree. But his theory that "once a weapon is used it becomes obsolete" is a bit sweeping considering the long bow (1,000 years), the rifle (six centuries plus) and the atomic bomb (18 months plus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: Apoplectic Advice | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

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