Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Churchill paints the story of the "Red Bear" very gloomily, and there is no doubt that it is. But a weapon more powerful than any atomic bomb are millions of despairing hearts-hearts of the peoples of all the nations of the world who had hoped 'that true democracy would be the fruit of this terrible struggle, and not more power politics...
Morrison's picture may not disturb the "just another weapon" school of thought which relaxes securely in its belief that defenses will fix everything. But Louis N. Ridenour shows the impotency of anything under one hundred percent defense, and the physical impossibility of anything over ninety percent defense. It is the huge destructive power of the bomb that makes even ten percent efficiency economical from an attacker's viewpoint. For, per square mile destroyed, an atomic bomb of the Hiroshima class is six times cheaper than other explosives, according to General Arnold, and possibly up to one hundred times cheaper...
...decision was in line with the Socialist Government's aim to control markets and eliminate middlemen. But the theory was not as important as the practical value of bulk buying as a trade weapon. Now smaller cotton-producing countries may be forced to buy British goods before Britain will buy their cotton. Even the U.S. may be forced to centralize cotton selling in a single governmental agency, to deal with the British on equal terms...
...food was only one Peró weapon. The Argentines were now ready to spend from $1 to $1½ billion to bring their war-worn economy up to date, and make it more self-sufficient. Peró wants machine tools, trucks, oilfield equipment, and engineering savvy to advance Argentina in the familiar pattern of totalitarian autarkic...
Some Americans have almost forgotten the atomic bomb. Some think of it as just another weapon, and think that an atomic war will be just another war. This week such ostrich notions were rudely jolted. One World or None (McGraw-Hill; $1)' "a report on the full meaning of the atomic bomb" by 17 scientists (including five Nobel prizewinners), generals and pundits, gave a preview of World War III. One World or None is a calm, hair-raising warning of swiftly approaching disaster. Americans who would like to die a natural death can read it with profit...