Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cannot sympathize with all the breast-beating and crying of mea culpa over our use of the atomic bomb. Granted that it is a weapon sufficiently terrible to make the abolition of war advisable, is its use one whit worse than the piecemeal destruction of cities and civilian centers by bombing and fire raids...
Safety in Smoke. Other CWS researchers made fire into a weapon to sweep whole cities. When Japanese planes swarmed over Pearl Harbor the U.S. had not a single incendiary shell or bomb in stock. Military bigwigs were not even interested. But CWS went to work and turned out 260,000,000 of them...
...LIMITATIONS ON THE POWER TO DEVALUE. A nation's power to devalue its currency has long been a favorite weapon in trade war. Cheaper pounds or francs mean that exports from Britain or France are cheaper, imports more expensive. The British were reluctant to give up the unlimited power to devalue at a time when they must greatly expand their exports to meet old and new debts. (2) FREE CONVERTIBILITY OF CURRENCIES. Britain owes about $16 billion in foreign debts, mostly within the sterling area and therefore payable only in sterling. Britain had expected to have about five years...
...shaping lay in the mechanics' hands of the men who had shaped the wartime economy. They had shaped it to turn out 297,000 combat planes, 86,000 tanks, 41,000,000,000 rounds of ammunition. They had also translated a theory of abstract physics into a practical weapon so efficient that it outmoded all other tools of war: the atom bomb. They had also planned for peace...
Captain K. Shintani, in charge of the fukuryu program, explained these plans to Commander M. H. Pryor of the U.S. Naval Technical Mission in Japan. He ruefully admitted that the new weapon might not have been decisive, but the Japanese had hoped they would cause as much damage as the Kamikazes (suicide planes), which accounted for 80% of the 223 U.S. ships damaged during the Okinawa campaign...