Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearly as much as he dislikes Richard Nixon. And he is stone-cold to any deal that might have him running for Knowland's vacant seat in the Senate. Even in a state that already has a Knowland and a Nixon, Goodie thinks about 1960, and that potent weapon, the 70-man state delegation to the G.O.P. Convention. And beyond that, maybe even the big white ranch house down yonder in Washington. But just as he is faced on the one side by Knowland's smoking guns, so is Knight hemmed in on the other by the long...
...Subcommittee on Disarmament renewed the Soviet "offer" to abandon H-bomb tests if the U.S. and Britain would do likewise. As usual, however, the men in the Kremlin were working both sides of the street. Two days before Zorin's statement, the Russians exploded a nuclear weapon of their own. It was the fifth (and one of biggest) Russian nuclear explosion in two weeks-explosions which, by curious coincidence, came hard on the heels of Soviet threats of hydrogen retaliation against European nations which agreed to the establishment of atomic NATO installations within their borders (TIME. April...
Since that historic flight, kept secret until last week, Inertial Guidance-the gyroscopic navigational system that guided the B-29 without visual or electronic aid from earth or stars-has been an obvious choice to control the U.S.'s ultimate earth-to-earth weapon: the pilotless intercontinental ballistic missile (TIME, Jan. 30, 1956). Last week in Cambridge. Mass., a pudgy, square-faced engineer who presides over an aging red brick factory building (still labeled "Home of Whittemore Shoe Polishes," but listed on Massachusetts Institute of Technology records as the Instrumentation Laboratory) outlined the details of Inertial Guidance, just declassified...
...single item except aircraft. The U.S. military establishment is rapidly becoming one vast electronics system, whose probing antennas and twirling radar reflectors are so sensitive that an upended card table floating off the Florida Keys was recently reported by a rookie radarman as "four unidentified submarines." Virtually every modern weapon depends upon electronics in some way, and the Army keeps track of its 100 million-item spare-parts inventory by electronic computers, which do the work of days in seconds. "Files," said one general, "are just things to keep your personal letters in today...
...question arises as to whether the investigation, occuring mainly in 1958, will become a Democratic campaign weapon. Evidence of a "businessman's administration" should be exposed, but broader purposes should not be submerged by mere electioneering. The subcommittee's greatest service would be to assure public control over bodies exercising such power in the national economy...