But six months after the crisis, a Gallup Poll found that public worry about nuclear weapons had fallen back to its lowest point since 1957, and there was a view, disputed by CND supporters, that U. S. President John F. Kennedy's success in facing down Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev turned the British public away from CND.

President John F. Kennedy, an ardent foe of nuclear proliferation, considered sales of such weapons moot since " in the event of war the United States would, from the outset, be prepared to defend the Federal Republic.

Originally, " maschinenpistole " was simply the German word for personal, automatic military weapons, while " submachine gun " was a term coined by John T. Thompson, American inventor of the Thompson submachine gun.

The presence of relics was believed to be an important source of supernatural power that served both as a spiritual weapon and a form of defense ; the relics of martyrs were considered by Saint John Chrysostom much more powerful than " walls, trenches, weapons and hosts of soldiers "

* 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval " quarantine " of the Communist nation.

In addition, Baltimore had 3 solid weapons in the passing game: wide receivers Eddie Hinton and Roy Jefferson, and future hall of fame tight end John Mackey combined for 119 receptions, 1, 917 yards, and 15 touchdowns.

* April 18 – American Revolution: Paul Revere and William Dawes, instructed by Dr. Joseph Warren, ride from Boston to Lexington to warn John Hancock and Sam Adams that British forces are coming to take them prisoner and to seize colonial weapons and ammunition in Concord.

The term Pax Americana was explicitly used by John F. Kennedy in the 1960s, who advocated against the idea, arguing that the Soviet bloc was composed of human beings with the same individual goals as Americans and that such a peace based on " American weapons of war " was undesirable:

During a televised presentation about the Cuban Missile Crisis on 22 October 1962, John F. Kennedy made reference to " offensive weapons of sudden mass destruction.

In 1999, Lieutenant John Ezra Dahlquist is a member of the Space Patrol, an international organization with the custody of all Earth's remaining nuclear weapons.

The two, John Weir and Billy McCaughey implicated their colleagues in a range of crimes including giving weapons, information and transport to loyalist paramilitaries as well as carrying out shooting and bombing attacks of their own.

The way Wiener's beliefs concerning nuclear weapons and the Cold War contrasted with that of John von Neumann is the major theme of the book John Von Neumann and Norbert Wiener Heims ( 1980 ).

While two soldiers investigate, John overcomes Rhodes and another soldier, steals their weapons, and goes to find Sarah and McDermott, while the zombies kill the remaining soldiers.

After taking the shot, the sniper's leg falls through the ceiling tiles and the outraged John pulls him out of the air shaft and beats him up before using the bound SWAT policeman as a human shield as he steps outside to the sight of dozens of policemen pointing weapons at him as well as a large crowd gathered to support his cause.

On 14 and 15 April 1865, John Wilkes Booth, who had two hours earlier assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, stopped by the Surrattsville tavern to pick up weapons and supplies.

" In the 1850s the abolitionist John Brown kept a store of weapons in Tabor, and met here with other supporters to plan his raids in Kansas and Virginia, including the Raid on Harpers Ferry.

* Onebigtorrent. org, The Documentary Death of a Nation — The Timor Conspiracy, produced by John Pilger in 1994 details the occupation period and exposes the involvement of Western governments in providing essential weapons systems, financial aid and the political cover for the Indonesian regime.

US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and US President Dwight Eisenhower told Nasser that the US would supply him with weapons only if they were used for defensive purposes and accompanied by US military personnel for supervision and training.

This was the first time in the 20th century, as Lance Hill observes, “ an armed black organization had successfully used weapons to defend a lawful protest against an attack by law enforcement .” Hill gives as another example: “ In Jonesboro, the Deacons made history when they compelled Louisiana governor John McKeithen to intervene in the city ’ s civil rights crisis and require a compromise with city leaders — the first capitulation to the civil rights movement by a Deep South governor .”

Shortly after, Arnold arranged to go to France to brief General John Pershing, commanding the American Expeditionary Force, on the Kettering Bug, a weapons development.

After attending Naval Destroyer School in Newport, in 1964 was assigned as weapons officer, USS John R. Craig ( DD-885 ).

John Stark led a bayonet charge at the Knyphausen regiment, whose resistance broke because their weapons would not fire.

* On 9 December 1944, Captain John Henry Cound Brunt utilised a PIAT, amongst other weapons, to help repel an attack by the German 90th Panzergrenadier Division.

During the administration of President John F. Kennedy, Smith argued that the United States should use nuclear weapons against the Soviet Union.

As a young man, Nobel studied with chemist Nikolai Zinin ; then, in 1850, went to Paris to further the work ; and, at 18, he went to the United States for four years to study chemistry, collaborating for a short period under inventor John Ericsson, who designed the American Civil War ironclad USS Monitor.

* 1888 – John Logie Baird, Scottish engineer and inventor ( d. 1946 )

* 1682 – John Hadley, English mathematician and inventor of the octant ( d. 1744 )

However, its intermediate result storage mechanism, a paper card writer / reader, was unreliable, and when inventor John Vincent Atanasoff left Iowa State College for World War II assignments, work on the machine was discontinued.

* John Rex Whinfield, chemist, inventor of Terylene ( polyester ), the first completely synthetic fibre invented in UK

It had no sole inventor, but claims have been made for the Swede John Ericsson and the Czeck Josef Ressel.

He surrounded Donald Duck and nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie with a cast of eccentric and colorful characters, such as the aforementioned Scrooge McDuck, the wealthiest duck in the world ; Gladstone Gander, Donald's obscenely lucky cousin ; inventor Gyro Gearloose ; the persistent Beagle Boys ; the sorceress Magica De Spell ; Scrooge's rivals Flintheart Glomgold and John D. Rockerduck ; Daisy's nieces April, May and June ; Donald's neighbor Jones, and The Junior Woodchucks organization.

The ten attendees were conference organiser Peter Pearman, Frank Drake, Philip Morrison, businessman and radio amateur Dana Atchley, chemist Melvin Calvin, astronomer Su-Shu Huang, neuroscientist John C. Lilly, inventor Barney Oliver, astronomer Carl Sagan and radio astronomer Otto Struve.

Other names connected to the city include Max Born, physicist and Nobel laureate ; Charles Darwin, the biologist who discovered natural selection ; David Hume, a philosopher, economist and historian ; James Hutton, regarded as the " Father of Geology "; John Napier inventor of logarithms ; chemist and one of the founders of thermodynamics Joseph Black ; pioneering medical researchers Joseph Lister and James Young Simpson ; chemist and discoverer of the element nitrogen, Daniel Rutherford ; mathematician and developer of the Maclaurin series, Colin Maclaurin and Ian Wilmut, the geneticist involved in the cloning of Dolly the sheep just outside Edinburgh.

In 1922, John Renshaw Carson of AT & T, inventor of Single-sideband modulation ( SSB modulation ), had published a paper in the Proceedings of the IRE arguing that FM did not appear to offer any particular advantage.

* 1840 – John Philip Holland, Irish inventor ( d. 1914 )

* 1840 – John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor ( d. 1921 )

Scots-born migrants that played a leading role in the foundation and development of the United States included cleric and revolutionary John Witherspoon, sailor John Paul Jones, industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and scientist and inventor Alexander Graham Bell.

* 1704 – John Kay, English inventor ( d. 1780 )

* 1831 – John Pemberton, American chemist, inventor of Coca-Cola ( d. 1888 )

* Sir John Brown ( industrialist ) ( 1816 – 1896 ), UK inventor of a process for rolling armor-plate and founder of the Atlas steelworks, Sheffield Towers

* John Walker ( inventor ) ( 1781 – 1859 ), English chemist and inventor of the friction match in 1827

Ultimately, some, like John Shosky, have concluded " It is far from clear that any one person should be given the title of ' inventor ' of truth-tables.

* 1823 – John H. Balsley, American carpenter and inventor ( d. 1895 )

* John Napier – inventor of logarithms

* 1837 – John Wesley Hyatt, American inventor ( d. 1920 )

* 1926 – John Browning, American firearm designer and inventor ( b. 1855 )