Word: aggressors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...note to Moscow the State Department bluntly warned that "should the Straits become the object of attack or threat of attack by an aggressor, the resulting situation . . . would clearly be a matter for action on the part of the Security Council of the United Nations...
...other weapons. A surprise atom-bomb attack could make Pearl Harbor look like a mere raid, but continental areas such as the U.S. and Russia are too great for immediate knock-out blows. A surprised but still surviving nation with atomic stockpiles could in its turn destroy the aggressor's cities and industries. After the first heavy devastation, both sides would have to fight minus most of their production; the war might well degenerate into a long stalemate with neither side able to launch a successful long-distance invasion...
More dangerous than the atom itself is the idea that a quick atomic blitz would defeat any great nation. No possible atomic aggressor would be able to think that if other great nations are automatically prepared. In mutual atomic war, even the "victor" will suffer "destruction incomparably greater than that suffered by any defeated nation in history. . . . Under those circumstances no victory, even if guaranteed in advance-which it never is-would be worth the price...
...years before, Mussolini had marched on Corfu. The three-year-old League had been too timid to rebuke him, so France and Britain had elbowed it aside to push the aggressor out themselves. Paraguay and Bolivia had fought a three-year war over South America's Chaco without interference. And Japan had marched calmly into Manchuria and out of Geneva. "The League," said Delegate Matsuoka then, "has done an awful thing. ... It has attempted to elevate itself to a superstate. Is the world at this stage really prepared to accept...
...guard against such sabotage, writes Condon, the U.S. would have to turn itself into a police state tighter than any in history. "Sabotage is no longer a threat to be kept in mind," he says. "It is a fearful danger, and an attractive possibility for an aggressor...