Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Admiral Marc Mitscher, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Air, and even younger aviators like Rear Admiral Arthur Radford might become wedded to the carrier, which had spearheaded the war.* Not to be overlooked by prophets is the fact that after World War I the radicals thought the naval weapon of the future was the submarine. In 1913 amiable, conservative Admiral Richard S. Edwards, who now sits at King's right hand, commanded a submarine flotilla...
Elliott did urge, however, "that we offer immediate, short term, small recovery loans to those countries which are discharging their political commitments according to the Yalta agreements. Whereas we should not make loans of food a political weapon of coercion, we certainly cannot afford to aid any country whose internal affairs are dominated by non-democratic elements...
...public be damned; let's get ours." Management, long since disarmed in labor strife, stood by, waiting for Government to do something. Government was almost as helpless; it had no firm policy and no means of stopping strikes, except plant seizures; it would lose even that inconclusive weapon six months after the official end of World War II was proclaimed...
...like many another seadog since the days of Salamis, Fleet Admiral Nimitz seemed to yaw a little in the shifting winds of press conferences. Example: of the atomic bomb he said, "It is a weapon which will undoubtedly add to the complexities of field commanders...
...more quickly and thoroughly the information was disseminated, the easier it would be to keep track of other nations' progress. Ely Culbertson, the bridge expert turned international prophet, had a daring plan. The nub: give a beefed-up international organization (not U.N.O.) surveillance over atomic and heavy-weapon production, plus enough atomic and other armed force to quell any potential aggressor...