Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grave but potentially hopeful meaning. In the lab at Livermore, they told the President, scientists have found how to make H-bombs that will be 96% freer from radioactive fallout than the first models. Given more time and more testing, they added, the U.S. could make a truly nonradioactive weapon, "the clean bomb...
...Stassen still had a way to go. In Washington, Secretary of State Dulles made clear that the U.S. would not (as Ike had suggested) accept a simple suspension of nuclear tests unless accompanied by general agreement for a cutoff of nuclear-weapon production (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). There were still disagreements among the allies about some other aspects of the U.S. plan. The British would like to see the cutoff date put off until they can build up their stockpile of bombs. Some NATO countries-France, Belgium, The Netherlands and West Germany-are none too happy over being included...
...bigger job than the Reconstruction Finance Corp. Created under President Hoover, it lent billions of dollars to shore up shaky banks, railroads and other key institutions. Its Depression-fighting mission accomplished, RFC lived on in World War II as the Government's most powerful and versatile financial weapon. When it became obvious that Japanese aggression would cut off the U.S. from Malayan natural-rubber supplies, RFC set up and operated the nation's huge synthetic-rubber program. It organized stockpiling of strategic materials and pre-emptive buying to keep them out of the hands of the Axis. When...
...years Dictator Francisco Franco's most powerful weapon in preventing revolt was the memory of the 1936-39 civil war in which a million Spaniards were killed-twice as many as in the American Civil War. Spaniards might be plagued by inflation, corruption, heavy-handed authority and inefficiency; they were willing to accept almost anything rather than more bloodshed...
Wilson's order would end the Air Force system of awarding contracts for long-lead, hard-to-produce plane and missile components before Congress allocates funds for the production of the entire weapon. If the directive is rigidly carried out, protested Air Force Secretary James H. Douglas, "large-scale terminations and stretch-outs of contracts would be necessary." Douglas warned that for fiscal 1958 the directive would eliminate $3.4 billion in plane and missile contracts and $800 million in other Air Force orders...