Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weapon deadly to enemy planes high in the air and harmless to civilians in cities below, the Genie, crowed the Air Force, is "the greatest advance in air defense since radar...
Pinning tke Rap. So long as Stalin lived, the Leningrad Case was a "quiet purge": nothing was said of it in print. It was first used as a weapon after Stalin's death, in the overthrow and execution of Secret Police Boss Lavrenty Beria. Even then, mention of the case was confined to a secret memorandum foreshadowing the later declaration in Khrushchev's famed 20th Party Congress speech on Feb. 24, 1956 that it was "precisely Beria" who "fabricated" the charges against the Zhdanovites. Within a year after Beria's death, Malenkov's power...
...Force, the decision was a simple matter of economy. Though the Navaho showed promise (about 2,300 m.p.h. speed, high altitude and 5,000-mile range), it was designed to carry bulky atomic weapons, and it is still years from production. Now with more compact warheads and with better missiles such as the Atlas and Titan ICBMs, which travel at 16,000 m.p.h. coming along more rapidly than expected, the Navaho would probably be obsolete before it ever got into operational use. Instead, the Air Force decided to produce Northrop's pilotless Snark bomber, a much slower (650 m.p.h...
...Chiefs of Staff were toying with a "War Crocodile"-a huge reinforced-concrete tank designed to crawl across the Channel on the sea floor. The public was officially warned against strange gossamer-like threads seen floating in the air. They turned out not to be a secret weapon but something to do with the mating of spiders...
Enfilade. In Milwaukee, Ulysses Simon, charged with attempting to kill a woman he shot in the back, was let off with a $100 fine and a year's probation for negligent use of a weapon, when the woman testified he fired not at her but at a nearby cuckoo clock...