Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although a member of the Armed Services Committee since 1946, Cole talks as much about disarmament as armament. In 1950, he expressed doubts about the morality of the hydrogen bomb, pointing out that it is a weapon for mass destruction. He also doubted whether it was practical, asked: "Is it worth the hundreds of millions of dollars needed to produce it?" The same year, he introduced a resolution for world disarmament to be directed by the United Nations...
...waves chattered with admonitions to "keep calm" and assurances that there would be no "disarray or panic." Pravda and its lesser imitators were black with warnings against "enemies within and enemies without." Freshly made posters saying "Vigilance-Our Weapon-" were plastered on billboards all over Moscow and, presumably, in other Soviet cities...
Army Ordnance experts explain that the Skysweeper is not intended for knocking down high-altitude bombers. It was designed as a tactical weapon to protect troops and installations from fast, low-flying jets, which it can pick off at any altitude up to four miles...
...university should resent what we believe to be unreasoned attacks upon it from those over-zealous patriots whom we fear do not properly construe either the functions of a university or the character of the evil they are seeking to uproot. When faced with this threat our strongest weapon is found among those academic principles which we feel constrained to defend--respect for the opinions of others. I am convinced that today's Communist hunters are not inherently vicious men seeking only to persecute harmless professors. I feel that, for the most part, our problem today is the result...
...much of mankind draws spiritual nourishment from myth, religion, legend and unthinking optimism. Man, argues the existentialist, must be more than a mere passive "being." He must be an "existent," i.e., one who boldly accepts the mortality of body & soul but nonetheless resolves to pit his courage (his only weapon) against the cruel reality of life & death...