Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...history of the club and the longbow and the musket teaches that the ICBM will probably not be the "ultimate" weapon in the sense that no defense can ever be developed against it. But there will doubtless be a period of years, perhaps decades, when the ICBM stands as the supreme, unstoppable weapon. Should the missile standoff burst upon a world unprepared to think about the new meanings, the ICBM could cause explosive political tensions that might even trigger the missile itself. What is important, then, is for the U.S. to approach the age of the ICBM with some hard...
...Lieut. General James M. Gavin recently alarmed all Europe by predicting that an all-out nuclear attack on the Soviet Union might kill several hundred million people, as the fallout drifted capriciously with the wind, falling on friend and foe alike. If the AEC has achieved a "large nuclear weapon" with greatly reduced fallout, it will enable atomic strategists to lay down their pattern of death with greater precision, make the H-bomb a far more useful military weapon. A bomb exploded, for instance, over a Polish air base would be less likely to depopulate Berlin...
Cutter's Comeback. When the bill came up for debate, General Joe's estimate of the situation was about right. Nonetheless, armed with the new weapon of Ike's promise to run, he was able to inspire some remarkably heroic performances. New York's legendary Republican budget-slasher, John Taber, threw off a lifetime habit to ask that the House raise its sights on foreign aid. This year, foghorned Taber, the cuts have gone too deep: Ike should get at least $4 billion. He was seconded by Massachusetts' Dick Wigglesworth, the Republicans...
Japan's long-distance scientific atom-bomb watchers (TIME, March 12 et seq.) were convinced that a nuclear weapon fired by the U.S. July 3 over Bikini was carried by a rocket, not an airplane, and that it exploded at a height of at least 22 miles...
...Testing weapons systems instead of isolated "nuclear devices" is one of the announced purposes of the U.S. tests at Bikini. One of the systems that needs testing most is the atom-armed antimissile rocket that both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. are believed to be developing. To protect a target city from a long-range missile, this weapon must attack its quarry high above the atmosphere...