Members also should bear in mind that today while the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics was more or less a civilian agency working only in the realm of science to meet peacetime demands. today practically all of its effort and output is for the military in this most vital field. While we have appropriated astronomical sums. hundreds of millions. and even billions of dollars in the promotion and improvement of weapons of warfare. yet we ought to realize the absolute necessity for it. Certainly no one should expect the United States to match man for man the teeming manpower of Soviet Russia and the Asiatic continent. Our only hope of victory or chance of survival in another global conflict would be in our superiority of weapons and in the superior skill of the man to handle those weapons. So while we gambled billions of dollars on the atomic bomband we did gamble about $2 billionit is a fascinating story.
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Teeming manpower of the Asiatic continent