Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Commenting on the economic and social implications of the bomb, Percy W. Bridgman, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, pointed out that "the responsibility for this weapon falls upon the shoulders of the government and people who called for its creation, not upon the scientist...
...know that the Germans came stunningly close to perfecting this fearful weapon and we are told that the Japanese received from them all the information the Nazis had gathered. It was simply a race to see which of us could complete it first, and the Jap trail of bestiality, thousands of miles long, gives us to understand that they would certainly not have hesitated to use this force, had they won the race...
...whole world is now in the range of this weapon. . . . War will go on until there is a change in the human heart-and I see no signs of that...
...were permitted to characterize our credits over past years in one four-letter word, I'd use the word 'Gaps.' " He explained that U.S. diplomats dicker, and U.S. credit agencies lend, without much connection between them. Thus the diplomats often find they lack a bargaining weapon suited to everyday use in diplomatic give and take...
Although he was once of Wall Street, he fought Wall Street bankers with the weapon of politicians. He once told a banker: "My way is the right way. If I can't have it, I will find some kind of a club to beat you with." And he has been smart: despite loud squawks from dividend-hungry stockholders, he poured wartime profits back into his railroads...