Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Time Has Come." High on Admiral Sherman's priority list was the weapon the Navy had been thinking about ever since the first A-bomb exploded at Alamogordo: a nuclear-powered submarine. Research and development of atomic power plants had been under way under the Atomic Energy Commission since 1947. Sherman thought that there was no reason to wait any longer on the scientists. He figured that the ship could be in operation within three years after Congress provided funds. Said Sherman: "We will never know until we have tried it. I think the time has come to build...
Changing Concept. That same night, the Army also gave the nation a glimpse of some new weapons. Speaking in guarded phrases during a radio interview, Army Chief of Staff Joe Collins let it be known that his antiaircraft artillerymen had already developed a new AA rocket which could knock down bombers flying at 60,000 feet-well above the present bomber ceiling-and were working on another guided missile which promised to be even more accurate at even higher altitudes. General Collins also thought that he would soon have a new weapon of "radical design" which might "change the whole...
Taking one look at the painting of pistol-packin' Betty (Annie Get Your Gun) Hutton on TIME'S April 24 cover, the Communist-licensed Berlin daily Neues Deutschland shrieked that the U.S. had discovered a deadly new weapon: "a warmonger with sex appeal...
...weapon McAuliffe was talking about was "nerve gas," long a subject of wild speculation among amateur military strategists. Presumably it would be sprayed over enemy cities by planes in the same way that whole areas are sprayed with mosquito-killing DDT, paralyzing the whole population. Then the attacking army, equipped with protective masks, would march in and take over...
Speaking at a conference of The Nation Associates at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, Fairbank criticized "the current effort to use our disaster in China as a weapon in domestic politics" as not only "a disgrace to the Republicans who are doing it, but an advertisement of our intellectual weakness concerning Asia...