Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...report on the perils of fallout and the new tests on the Nevada desert last week sharply illustrated the key points of U.S. atomic weapon policy...
Army: "The nuclear weapon," said the white paper, "may discourage overt armed intervention by the Communist powers, such as occurred in Korea . . . but equally, it may encourage the indirect approach through infiltration and subversion." Britain is creating a mobile strategic reserve, ready to be flown from England to any new threatened outpost. The total cost and size of the British army will be substantially reduced...
...period, to re-establish Germany's unity." He talked of countermeasures: a new unified command of satellite armies to offset SHAPE. He waved Russia's H-bomb: "U.S. aggressive circles have miscalculated once again . . . The matter has progressed so far that in the production of the hydrogen weapon ... it is not the Soviet Union but the U.S. which is ... the . . . laggard...
...first A-bomb which shattered Hiroshima struck out at its victims over about 7 square miles. Compared with the TNT blockbuster, this primitive nuclear weapon constituted a "quantum jump" in the instruments of war. On November 1, 1952, a much more powerful bomb spread its blast-heat punch over 300 square miles. This was Quantum Jump No. 2. The world did not have long to wait for No. 3. It came on March 1, 1954, with the fallout of radioactive particles over thousands of square miles of the Pacific. Quantum Jump No. 3-the lethal radioactive fallout-is still...
Dubbing himself "King Al No. -1," Allerd holds court over a set of fellow oddballs. The oddest: an Indian who believes his people can reconquer the U.S. by blowing up its sewage systems ("A devastating new weapon. Smell."), a Lesbian who drinks milk from a baby bottle, a homosexual, a Harvard graduate who scouts the society pages for the names of new brides and phones them from pay booths at 4 a.m., a seven-foot Santa Claus who tampers with little girls. Author Bourjaily (whose first novel, The End of My Life, was hailed by some critics for its "lyric...