Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Finally, Congress may be asked to approve a long-range plan for the U.S. to help develop other nations as prime coffee suppliers and reduce U.S. dependence on Brazil. But the fact is that no legislation can be as effective in keeping coffee beans from bouncing as the one weapon that has worked: the U.S. consumer's pocketbook...
...strategic position in the world which make the thoughts which were well founded and well knit together a year ago utterly obsolete." What the great old man was referring to here is the fact that the hydrogen bomb has turned out to be an even more hideous and destructive weapon than was planned and expected. It has now been discovered that in certain special cases the heat and blast may be no more than the percussion cap of a much larger phenomenon...
This phenomenon is the radioactive "fallout" that showered the Japanese fishing boat Fortunate Dragon and several of the inhabited Marshall Islands with noxious ashes. That this kind of noxious fallout must probably be expected, obviously transforms the new H-bomb from a city-destroying weapon to a province-crippling weapon. Churchill used this new phenomenon to justify the abandonment of Britain's great Suez base. Churchill was saying, in effect, that the Suez base, which stretches for 100 miles along the Canal, was now too vulnerable to have real value...
Lockheed's big project will be dedicated to what Quesada calls "the delivery problem." Says he: "Today we can build a thermonuclear weapon with as much yield as we want. The problem is how to get the damn thing there." To find the answer. Quesada will tap 200 of the country's top scientists, give them absolutely free reign to wander through the problem at an 80-acre laboratory in Van Nuys, have them delve into theoretical electronics and upper-air travel. He will pay high salaries, encourage them to soak up academic atmosphere by letting them teach...
...laboratory show a profit. Says Quesada: "Scientists function best when they know that they can work without dictation and develop theories irrespective of military contracts. We hope that through our ability to be original we will then be able to translate a military requirement into a military weapon...