Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French atomic-bomb program will cost close to $1 billion (400 billion francs) in the next seven years. In NATO eyes, France could make many more useful contributions to Western defense than by designing and manufacturing a weapon already made by the U.S. and Britain. It is exactly the kind of wasteful enterprise that the projected summit meeting was designed to eliminate or make unnecessary...
...were casually counting the house. Then a quick switch to a quick snap would send him scampering around end on a run-pass option play. Sometimes he flubbed passes when the wet ball skidded off his fingers, but always, when he needed help, he had the most devastating weapon on the field: Navy's rapid little (5 ft. 10 in., 176 Ibs.) captain. Ned Oldham, a marvelous mudder from Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio...
...Business School professor has called for an independent civilian agency to work for the development of "radically new weapon concepts...
...long-range, thermonuclear ballistic missile is an "ultimate" weapon in only one sense: defense against it is so difficult that it may prove impossible. But if adequate defense is ever achieved, missiles can learn new tricks and become "ultimate" again...
FOREIGN TRADE Secret Weapon "I am convinced that we can win the cold war by means of a secret weapon all our own. That secret weapon is trade-trade under our system of capitalism and competitive enterprise-accompanied by capital investment and technical aid in undeveloped countries." So said Benjamin F. Fairless, onetime U.S. Steel boss and now president of the American Iron and Steel Institute. Fairless' words last week, spoken after an 18-nation tour as chairman of a seven-man presidential advisory group, were not lost on his audience: 2,500 top U.S. businessmen assembled...