Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President said he could not sign the petition, however, because he is no longer a legal resident of Wisconsin. But, according to Willoughby, he wished the campaign luck, and said the petition might be an effective moral weapon against McCarthy even without succeeding in having the Senator recalled...
Bainbridge's job at the Los Alamos project, of which Oppenheimer was over-all scientific director, was to supervise the first actual test of the new weapon. From February, 1944, to September, 1945, he directed the preparations and the subsequent calculations for the first atomic explosion which took place on July...
Kistiakowsky, along with another scientist at Los Alamos, was in charge of the final assembly of the bomb before the test. He and Bainbridge were the last men to inspect the weapon before it was detonated...
Pale-faced Clement Attlee was first on his feet. "Once there is a war in the modern age, in the last resort, any weapon will be used," he said. "There is no guarantee that in some country, at some time, there may not arise to power a fanatic who hated the human race or believed that all civilization might be destroyed." Equality of Annihilation. The old, familiar figure stumped up to the dispatch box. With a twinkle in his eye, Sir Winston threw in his well-assembled rebuttal. "I cannot feel that this is a day of tribulation," he said...
...dismiss from defense plants during a national emergency any person whose record showed he was likely to engage in sabotage or espionage. Such a measure was in force during World War H, and experience indicates that unless great discretion is used in its application, it can become a weapon of personal vindictiveness. It is conceivable, for example, that one employee might report another from motives that are personal, not patriotic...