Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though he had two tough brothers, "Big Gangy" and "Little Gangy," Bummy took care of his own problems. When his opponents were too big he clouted them with a fearsome weapon-one of his mother's stockings with coal stuffed in the toe. For entertainment he dropped flower pots off fire escapes on passersby, and dodged the truant officer...
Unanswerable Weapon...
...devastation of Germany and Japan by the Air Forces and the delivery of the atom bombs-the Navy's high brass still talks of air power as an inseparable adjunct of sea power-comparable, say, to the submarine force. Some admirals still think of tactical aircraft as a weapon something like a 16-in. naval gun. And on that stubborn basis they will fight to the end any threat to the old, traditional prestige of the surface ship. They were fighting desperately last week, somewhere near their one-yard line...
...thing has been as clear as daylight to me ever since I became convinced of the reality of the atomic bomb: namely, that a secret armament race in respect to this weapon must at all costs be avoided," Conant continued. "I am an enthusiastic supporter of the policy laid down in the first statement from the White House, and I hope the whole country will rally behind the administration in this matter...
...similar access to the Russian arsenal, it would not be granted. ... I cannot myself feel the slightest anxiety as a Brit ish subject that these great powers are at the present moment in the hands of the United States. ... We should aid the United States to guard this weapon as a sacred trust for the maintenance of peace...