Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Worthless Weapon...
...having belatedly discovered that possession of the bomb is only a temporary asset, and utterly worthless as a weapon of diplomacy, is now trying to cash it in for something more permanent and substantial-the abolition of Russia's veto. But it is idle to suppose that the U.S.S.R. can be stampeded into such a deal, when they know: 1) that nothing can possibly happen to them for refusing; we are not going to use the bomb for the next five or ten years in any event; 2 ) by that time they will also have the bomb...
Incensed when City Editor Lou Young of the Los Angeles Herald & Express canceled her day off, Aggie barged across the city room, proceeded to belabor him about the arms and neck with her handiest weapon-a three-foot barracuda which a fisherman had just given her. City Editor Young heard the laughter, decided it was best to join...
America, Be Cautious. "In the meantime, it is not we who . . . ostentatiously rattle with the secret weapon. I want to tell my American friends: be more cautious-bombs, even if they are not atomic, are bad toys. You cannot play with them; they explode unexpectedly...
...strategically distributed, so that no one nation could gain an advantage by seizing ADA's supplies and installations within its own borders. The Acheson planners concluded that it would be almost impossible for any nation to hide a complete bomb-making process from ore mine to finished weapon, or even to "re-nature" enough denatured material, in secret, to accumulate a dangerous supply...