Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Accept the U.N.'s value as a world forum, but realize that in meeting aggression the U.N. is "an utterly ineffective weapon...
Tools of the Trade. In Toronto, Kenneth Coughlin, charged with "carrying an offensive weapon," was dismissed after he explained to the court that he needed his brass knuckles for self-defense in his job as a rent collector...
...angrily observed that Frenchmen were being asked to accept austerity and sacrifice while being placed outside "the strategic periphery." It would be better, said Le Monde in effect, for France to be neutral. Cried Norway's Dagbladet: "Herbert Hoover . . . neo-isolationism . . . means that Russia has got a new weapon in the cold war." The Kremlin evidently thought it had something, indeed. Moscow's Pravda printed the full text of Hoover's statement, though it had not even summarized Harry Truman's national emergency address. The Soviet press was apparently trying to prove that U.S. opinion agreed...
...Theodore von Kármán, the cigar-smoking, eager boss of the famed Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at CalTech. With Air Force and private funds, Dr. von Kármán had been experimenting enough with rockets to know they could be an important weapon. And since he was well acquainted with the work of the top Axis aerodynamicists, he knew what fast progress they were making with rockets. But when Dr. von Kármán tried to get U.S. corporations interested in going into the rocket business in 1941, he was turned down flat...
...from being the perfect weapon. Some doctors think that it can be downright dangerous; even its most ardent partisans admit that it will not do a complete immunization job in every case. It can be used only on patients showing no active sign of the disease. An added difficulty is the fact that no one can be certain just how effective BCG is until it is made the only preventive agent in a long-term experiment on a large mass of people...