Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reasonable questions had been answered. Among the more important items: ¶The U.S. has no intention of abandoning local defenses. All around the world, the U.S. is continuing to build forces among its allies. ¶ The U.S. has not decided that air-atomic power is its sole weapon. In the new military budget are funds for the biggest Army and Navy the U.S. has ever maintained in peacetime. The U.S. is still willing to accept sound international control of atomic weapons. The U.S. does not intend to turn every little war into a general atomic war, but it does intend...
...March issue of its unofficial voice, United States Naval Institute Proceedings. The issue led off with an essay titled "The Great Debate: 1954," written by Commander Ralph E. Williams Jr., the department's star writer. The essay's theme: the "air-atomic concept" is wrong. "The ultimate weapon is the man, not the bomb...
...Washington, Representative Sterling Cole, head of the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee, began an investigation of the March i explosion and announced that the U.S. now has a deliv erable thermonuclear weapon. <| The AEC enlarged the danger zone around the atomic-test site in the Marshalls to 20 times its original area. ^ The Food & Drug Administration ordered a Geiger check on all shiploads of tuna and shark coming into West Coast ports from the test area...
Martin's weapon was President Eisenbower's outspoken opposition to the raise in exemptions. While the White House kept its representatives away from Capitol Hill, Martin and his men worked on the mavericks in small conferences and, finally, in a record-breaking caucus attended by 201 House Republicans. Again & again, Martin pounded home some simple facts: Dwight Eisenhower is the party's great political asset and those who go against him on this key tax issue can hardly expect to ride his coattails this fall. The argument was persuasive; one by one most of the strays drifted...
...full circle. And although the "containment" name calling still goes on, the subsurface differences in defense policy between Administrations would seem immaterial, if they exist at all. In the course of the debate, Admiral Radford, speaking for the Administration, denied that the "New Look" meant dependence "on a single weapon or service." But the military budget for 1955 tells a somewhat different story. More than four billion dollars will be cut from Army and Navy appropriations; spending for the Air Force and atomic weapons will increase. Advocates of the cut argue that cheaper and more effective weapons will prevent...