Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Weapon. TNT is barely twice as strong as black powder was six centuries ago. World War II developed explosives up to 60% more powerful than TNT. The atomic bomb is more than 12,000 times as strong as the best improvement on TNT. One hundred and twenty-three planes, each bearing a single atomic bomb, would carry as much destructive power as all the bombs (2,453,595 tons) dropped by the Allies on Europe during...
...first phase was frightening enough -even to the people whose governments held the secret. They understood that what had happened to Hiroshima and later to Nagasaki only began to measure the atom as a weapon of war, and thus as an extension of politics...
...secrets are perishable. The atomic bomb greatly widened the enormous gap between the top powers and the rest of the nations. In a few years it might change the world's political picture again-and far more drastically. In the long run, this new weapon might tend to place nations on the same level of power, just as gunpowder had leveled feudal classes...
...York Times pointed out that to outlaw atomic energy as a weapon was useless without considering "the rest of war's horrible paraphernalia. In a word, the trail must be blazed for disarmament and peace...
Fear and despair gripped the Japanese nation. Over Hiroshima's "most awesome" destruction, Radio Tokyo moaned: "Diabolic weapon. . . . The corpses are too numerous to be counted. . . . Practically all living things, human and animals, were literally seared to death...