Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Know Your Weapon. Meany quoted a statement by General Motors President Harlow Curtice (in the current Look): "I no longer see any reason why sales of cars and other peacetime products to the Soviet bloc cannot be increased as long as such sales fit in with U.S. State Department policies." Said Meany: "Doesn't Mr. Curtice realize that to the Iron Curtain rulers, to the Communist warlords, foreign trade is not so much an economic undertaking, as we know it in the free world, but rather a political weapon to be used against...
This is the nightmare of the missilemen: It is 1962, and the U.S. is lagging in its development of war's newest weapon, the long-range guided missile. From Moscow to the apprehensive free world comes a terse radio announcement: for the next ten days, a 200-mile-square area in the landless South Pacific is a danger area; shipmasters and airplane pilots traverse it at their peril. The U.S. Navy and Air Force take tip surveillance of the area; radar tracking crews from Alaska to New Guinea stand by their gear. On one of these days, a small...
Equations of War. The ICBM is the nearest thing to an "ultimate weapon," complete with delivery system, that has ever been conceived. From U.S.-controlled territory, it could reach any part of the world, wreck the biggest city by blast and heat. Then the radioactive byproducts, drifting with the wind, could turn an area the size of many nations into a silent wilderness. An enemy's version of ICBM could do the same to any part...
...risen from 500 to several million, and sweating mailmen are dragging love letters by sackfuls into the office. Apart from the great Figg feature, the Informer also gives some coverage to a British scientist who is suspected of having decamped Eastward with his nation's newest secret war weapon-electric eels. Another informative Informer expose concerns a movement called Ethical Recreation (which may remind some readers of Moral Re-Armament); its leader, Dr. Sloper, ministers chiefly to the rich, since "the poor are always Christian, they can't afford to be anything else...
Police said that the murder weapon was a carpenter's hatchet...