[design] time-capsule

In the Pentagon and in hundreds of labs and proving grounds from White Sands NM to Aberdeen MD, scientists are engaged in a vast program opening up awesome vistas of mass death and destruction.

The weapons developed by our "long hairs," as the services dub their scientific colleagues, won't make current ideas of warfare obsolete. But we will be ready in two to four years for a "radar-brain" war of short-range missiles, bombs, shells and rockets, all guided by remote control to deliver an atomic wallop to the enemy.

We will also stand ready to use, if we must, an arsenal of new bacteriological weapons capable of killing thousands at one fell swoop. New, deadly poison gases have been developed, too. Still another new weapon just over the horizon is radiological warfare - killing and afflicting by radioactivity from nuclear fission.

LOOK Magazine, November 21, 1950


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