Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clear everything with Sidney." As a Republican weapon, that slogan somehow didn't work. This week Republican National Chairman B. Carroll Reece came out with a new slogan. The Democrats, said he, were responsible for: "Controls, Confusion, Corruption & Communism." Republican strategists hoped that one would catch...
...able to break NBC's hammer lock on humor. Last week, little ABC weighed in a promising challenger: droll, deadpan Henry Morgan. His first coast-to-coast half hour (Tues., 8:30-9 p.m., E.D.S.T.) was the freshest and funniest new show in years. Morgan's secret weapon: a needle that tickles...
Their fate supported Vice Admiral W. HP. Blandy's remark that the atomic bomb is a poison weapon" (TIME...
...report outlined the uselessness of all direct and indirect defenses against atom bombs, but added a comforting note: "War with this weapon will not be completely unendurable in a country adequately prepared and strong enough to withstand the first onslaught. The length of the war would certainly be increased by adequate dispersion of great industrial areas and the construction of subterranean factories. . . . We can expect war to continue until . . . the will to resist is finally broken...
Levels of World War III. Military scientists agreed that it was neither practical nor safe to try for the "ultimate weapon" in one jump. It would have to be reached step by step. Furthermore, war might come before it was ready, so the in-between steps had to be taken first, anyhow. The climb toward extra-atmospheric warfare would be in three stages...