Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...missiles' most likely origin: Peenemünde, former V-bomb base on Germany's Soviet-occupied Baltic coast. Swedish Army spokesmen knew little beyond the fact that they were fired with a new type of weapon. But a picture released by the Army last week finally convinced all the papers (except the Communist) that the rockets were real, and that a foreign power (i.e., Russia) was using Sweden as a testing ground. Blustered Stockholm's Social Democratic Morgantidningen: "Intrusiveness must not be allowed to continue...
...experts had yet to come back from Bikini; their studies had still to be tallied. But what they had learned was summed up last week in the heartfelt comment of Admiral William H. P. Blandy: "It's a poison weapon." He could have gone farther. The atomic age will be an age of poison. Even the peaceful use of atomic power will generate deadly rays and radioactive particles. How to guard against them is the first problem of the atomic...
...August, 1945 Bonney was appointed Deputy Commander of Service Squadron 10, the Naval logistics unit for all territory west of Hawaii, which later became known as Admiral Nimitz's "secret weapon." He held this post until his transfer to the University NROTC program was announced...
...sure we won't be sorry for it." There is Harvard's Conant, stating that the use of atomic power for planes and autos is scientifically out of the question for the present; and there are the reactions of Baruch and Gromyko to discussion of the Absolute Weapon...
...Waitt admitted they were right. He guessed that ten to twelve G.I.s had been killed by premature explosions of 4.2 shells. Later he raised the total to 29 killed and 83 wounded. Finally in confusion he agreed to make a third report about the weapon that had been represented to civilians as one of C.W.S.'s great achievements...