Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also catching up with Nasser. Last week the Egyptian regime began rationing kerosene, which millions of its subjects use for heating and cooking. As a result of declining government revenues, Cairo announced a 10% cutback in public spending. Nasser's need for the canal revenues is the best weapon the rest of the world has against his attempts to haggle too long over a Suez political settlement. At week's end, in the usual Egyptian style, the Cairo newspaper Al Ahram announced that Egypt would negotiate with Britain and France only if new governments took over in those...
...gleaming weapon that makes the new Eisenhower Middle East policy more than words is the U.S. Navy's Sixth Fleet. This is the big stick that the U.S. carries in that troubled area while the President talks softly; it is the Middle East's steel-grey stabilizer, a powerful force of aircraft carriers and atom-armed planes, missile ships, cruisers, destroyers and a Marine amphibious unit that unobtrusively patrols-and controls-that ancient and vital waterway, the Mediterranean...
...cannot tell you how exciting it is," he wrote to his close friends, "to hold in my two hot hands a large part of the striking power of the Navy. Others may pull the strings and add to or lessen my frustrations, strengthen or weaken, sharpen or blunt the weapon before it is handed to me; but it is I who have it. It is mine to shape and polish, inspire or confound, instruct or confuse, ready or sheathe, and employ wisely or foolishly...
...cost the nation to develop and produce the original atom bomb. Its capital investment in nuclear sites and equipment has grown from $1.2 billion in 1947 to almost $7 billion today. Said the report: "The current program has attained its goal of geographic dispersion of vital components of the weapon 'assembly line.'" To feed that hungry line, and to provide for tomorrow's civil atom-power market, the U.S. has become "the world's greatest producer of uranium with more than 1,000 mines now operating...
...Russia does permit satellite independence, the U.S. has no intention of trying to convert Eastern Europe into an aggressive weapon against the Soviet...