Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus to the U.S., already great in military and scientific prowess, had come man's most destructive weapon. To the U.S. Army Air Forces had been given the means for complete destruction of Japan. General "Tooey" Spaatz and his Pacific flyers could now blow the enemy into the sea, for one atomic bomb dropped from one plane can wreak the same destruction as 2,000 B-29s (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS...
...Challenge. But the atomic bomb was something more than an instrument to shape 1945's history. It represented a brutal challenge to the world to keep the peace. The scientists had created, and had successfully applied, a weapon which might wipe out with a few strokes any nation's power to resist an enemy...
...Secretary Stimson merely said that the new weapon would "prove a tremendous aid" in shortening the conflict. The men in the know-the scientists racing for the secret of atomic energy, the very few military men who were aware of the race-had said that the winner would have the power to win this war and all wars. Now the U.S. had the power, and had it in combat quantities...
Before the new weapon appeared, the biggest brass in Washington had feared that the U.S. public was being fed too much optimism about a quick end of the war. Now, the chances for a quick end were brighter than ever. But, as a matter of sense and duty, the fighting commanders had to assume that Japan would have to be invaded. Any earlier, easier end to the war would be a bonus. Sound military minds could hope for it. But they dared not count...
...higher strategists of class war have long held that taxation could be more effective a weapon of revolution than a machine...