Word: weaponeering
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...retrospective chill in knowing that in December 1944, an American playboy and spy, George Earle, posted in Istanbul, sent Franklin Roosevelt a warning that the Germans, who were already hurling V-1 buzz bombs and V-2 rockets against London, were about to launch another pilotless secret weapon, the V-3, said to be capable of crossing the Atlantic in 40 minutes and hitting New York City. A worried Franklin Roosevelt told his cousin Daisy Suckley, in whom he sometimes confided, that his spy informed him the V-3 could kill everyone within a mile of impact. The Nazis were...
...hoped, spending less of it. An economic slump, made worse by the Sept. 11 terror attacks, is moving employers to shift more health-care costs onto workers, according to a new report released two weeks ago. But some bosses are starting to think their employees might be the best weapon in the war against health-care inflation. Much as 401(k) savings plans have supplanted old-fashioned guaranteed pensions, such consumer-driven health plans aim to shift the responsibility--and risk--of employer health insurance to the rank and file. "We've taught people that when they put down...
Osama bin Laden has understood this. His main weapon has been the spread of fundamentalist propaganda, and from the beginning, he has started to work on people’s minds-on those minds open to, but not yet convinced by his incendiary idealism. “Every Muslim shall support his religion,” he said on a taped message sent to Al-Jazeera television channel last week, after mentioning how his “brothers and sisters” in Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq had symbolically retaliated in the recent attack on America. His denunciation...
...officers arrested Damien Aimes of Washington Street in Cambridge for the following charges: assault with a deadly weapon, discharging a firearm in city limits, illegal carrying of a firearm, unlawful possession of a firearm, possesion of drug paraphernalia, possesion with intent to distribute drugs in a school zone and unlawful possesion of ammunition...
...Then the bacterium would have to become spores in order to travel through the air. Then they?d be disseminated - most likely as a slurry, which is a liquid, or possibly as a powder. Either way the spores would be imperceptible, because in order to be used as a weapon, the particles have to be microscopic in size. Over a period of hours, sunlight would kill the bacteria, so the danger of infection starts to fade over time...