Word: weaponeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact, the ten Democrats on the committee spent 45,000 words praising AEC for striking "a satisfactory balance between 'security by achievement' and 'security by concealment.' The project," added the majority, "has moved a long way from the bleak days of 1947 when our weapon stockpile position bordered upon complete inadequacy...
After a disappointing start against Pennsylvania, the Indians came back to wallop Holy Cross and Colgate, primarily on the strength of Clayton's passing and some well executed trap plays and off tackle slants. Dartmouth's great weapon against Harvard last year, however, was its outside game...
...Navy's case was simple but grave: the U.S. was entrusting its defense to a "fallacious concept"-the atomic blitz, and an inadequate weapon-the Air Force's six-engined B-36 bomber. Said Radford: "The B-36 has become, in the minds of the American people, a symbol of a theory of warfare-the atomic blitz-which promises them a cheap and easy victory if war should come...
...Force argue that the B-36 was invulnerable ("We know," said General Vandenberg in the same speech, "that no plane or weapon of any kind can be completely invulnerable"). The Air Force, Vandenberg said, held only that the B-36 could get through in sufficient numbers to deliver an initial atomic blow; the threat alone "serves to divert a great portion of any nation's effort to its internal defense." There were better planes than the B-36 on the drawing board and in the works, but until they were ready, the B-36 remained the best bomber...
Power of the Word. In Los Angeles, Joseph Weissman was booked for assaulting his wife with a deadly weapon: a prayer book...