Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rear Admiral Frank Akers, as ACNO for undersea warfare [TIME, Aug. 24], seems to be forcing just such an arrangement. In their effort to keep apace with the Air Force in projecting themselves into the pushbutton future, the Navy has apparently relegated to the second team its most effective weapon in the Pacific melee-the submarine. Perhaps some boning up on naval history will remind the Navy that both the Kaiser and Hitler came very close to winning two entirely different world conflicts with the U-boat ... It would be prudent and appropriate for the Navy to put at least...
...calls for a heroic effort to construct a deep new U.S. air defense system. Some U.S. airmen sharply challenge Oppenheimer on two grounds: 1) no conceivable air defense can be complete; 2) Oppenheimer's accent on defense implies a relaxing of the U.S. strategic air arm, the only weapon the U.S. has for carrying a retaliatory attack to the heart of Russia...
...have tried everything else-maybe the atomic bomb will bring the Red barbarians to their senses as it did the Japanese. I know that some will protest that the atomic bomb is an immoral weapon. I agree that it is. But so are all other man-killing weapons of war . . . When will we learn that you don't stop the Red murderers by merely playing tiddlywinks with them...
From his home in Culpeper, Va.. AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss stated: "We have never assumed that it was beyond the capability of the Russians to produce such a weapon and that is the reason why, more than three years ago, it was decided to press forward with this development for ourselves...
...meet him. "What can the U.S. do to stop Communism?" Herter asked him. "Get us food," said the friend. Herter sent an urgent wire to Washington, and food supplies were rushed to the starving country. "This was the first convincing example to me of food being a potent weapon," says Herter...