Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Machine Gun: a .60-cal., air-cooled weapon with the highest muzzle velocity of any gun of its type. It can be electrically fired by remote control, thus giving the gunner the advantage of a sheltered firing position when the muzzle blast discloses the position of his gun. Another distinctive feature: the barrel can be unscrewed and replaced by a 20-mm. barrel...
Australia's rabbit eats a quarter of the country's pasturage. Cattlemen have tried poison, fences, shot & shell-all without success. Last week a new weapon promised to cut the rabbit down to size...
...weapon: a peculiar disease called myxomatosis, which is harmless to humans and other animals, deadly to rabbits. Scientists launched a myxomatosis epidemic by catching 500 rabbits, giving them the needle, turning them loose. Since a rabbit does not die until ten or twelve days after being infected, it has plenty of time to pass the disease around. In Asia's "Year of the Rabbit" (see WAR IN ASIA) hordes of Australian rabbits had already been myxomatosized...
...weak bombs exploded in Nevada may have been this long-sought-for weapon. They may have been dropped from small aircraft or even fired from something resembling artillery. If such weapons lave been perfected, they will be a powerful addition to U.S. military strength...
Space Is a Weapon. Anybody looking for a strong sense of human reality wil not find it in Blackwood. In The Man Whom the Trees Loved, for instance, he maunders through a 70-page vagary in which a man is slowly taken over into the vegetable kingdom. Blackwood provides no human motives whatever for this slow mutation. However, he provides such sinister vegetable ones that a nervous reader may take to watching his peas and cucumbers in quite a new way. In The Terror of the Twins, space is somehow seized as a weapon in the invisible hands...