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> From: Peter Brush <Brush@LIBRARY.Vanderbilt.edu> > > When I search the JSTOR database very broadly, I find first use of the > phrase is in an editorial on control of the atomic bomb in the American > Journal of International Law dated 1946. JSTOR is a scholarly journal > database When I search the Times of London database for this phrase, > which claims coverage from 1915 to 1971, the first instance of use is > 1954. I cannot explain why the database does not find the 1937 use. Apparently, the term WMD was not used in Dec 1937, unless we find the exact paper of the _Times_ for that month. > From: Hubert Van Tuyll <hvantuyl@aug.edu> > > One interesting follow-up on this would be to study at what point > conventional indiscriminate bombing lost steam as a strategically useful > method -- and why. The Legal Department of the FO was over-ruled about June 1938 by the WO and RAF, at the Cabinet level. The real decision took some months and the PRO does not want to pin-point the story in more detail. Needless the say World War II, put the whole project in the dead file. >Was it because technology improved? No. The politics, the military, the technological offices and economics run their own bureaucracies. Robert Whealey
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