Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ready. This was the Air Force's intercontinental bomber at the ready last week. The free world's Sunday punch was getting its daily windup. These were the men and this was the weapon, which in Winston Churchill's words, form the one "effective deterrent" hanging over the heads of the Soviet Politburo-the likeliest reason why Russia's aggressors have so far started only a proxy war in Korea...
...trying to cut the road to Taegu," said grey-haired Mike Michaelis as he sat, bone-tired, against the wall of his culvert command post as automatic weapon fire zinged and buzzed like angry bees around him. "He's trying to scare me into withdrawing and leaving my equipment. Then he can come down the road with his armor. I'm just not going...
Ever since they first went into action in Korea, U.S. troops had prayed for weapons powerful enough to pierce the heavily armored, Russian-made tanks of the North Korean Communists. The first successful new weapon against the Red tanks was the 3.5 inch bazooka (TIME, July 31), which quickly proved its worth. Last week, the Army took the wraps off a new artillery shell guaranteed by ordnance experts to "kill any tank in the world as far as a gunner...
...sentence: "The fission products produced in one day's run of a 100,000-kilowatt chain-reacting pile might be sufficient to make a large area uninhabitable." The Smyth Report appeared in 1945. Since then, "radiological poisons" have hardly been mentioned, much less evaluated publicly as a military weapon...
...ground at the rate of two curies per square meter would give a man eight roentgens of radiation per hour. In about ten days this would build up to the lethal dose of 2,000 roentgens. The period of grace, thinks Ridenour, makes radiological poison a rather humane weapon. The inhabitants of a contaminated city could save their lives if they set out promptly...