Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thoughts and things were split. The sudden achievement of victory was a mercy, to the Japanese no less than to the United Nations; but mercy born of a ruthless force beyond anything in human chronicle. The race had been won, the weapon had been used by those on whom civilization could best hope to depend; but the demonstration of power against living creatures instead of dead matter created a bottomless wound in the living conscience of the race. The rational mind had won the most Promethean of its conquests over nature, and had put into the hands of common...
...atomic bomb a persuader at Potsdam? Only the secretive conferees knew for certain. The President later said that Russia agreed to come in "before being told of our new weapon" (he may have referred to the Yalta agreement -in principle...
...atomic bomb was not merely a new weapon; it was a new dimension of military and political power. Each in its turn, steel and gunpowder and aircraft had gradually changed war and society. In a single day the atomic bomb made a bigger change than any of them. Its blast hit every war office and chancellery on earth...
...wars, Lieut. General Nathan F. ("The Champ") Twining (TIME, Aug. 6). In turn, LeMay was taking a new assignment: the orders had made him chief of staff of the U.S. Army Strategic Air Forces. In that executive capacity, just when the B-29s were getting a new atomic weapon which might change the whole concept of war, he would run the B-29 show under the overall supervision of the U.S.'s top strategic airman, wise, imperturbable General Carl Spaatz. In Spaatz's command were both Twining's Twentieth and Lieut. General "Jimmy" Doolittle's Okinawa...
...offer was not necessarily a failure. Its authors had not expected an instant success; it was a slow-burning fire. And it had been timed to precede the shock of the new atomic bomb, a weapon which would hit Japan and the Japanese as no land or people had ever before been hit (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS). Soon the survivors might be more receptive...