Word: agressors
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...PROPOSAL leaves that same horrific and impossible threat of global extinction in place. An agressor in a non-nuclear world could still kill millions, though not as fast, and passive nations would still have to threaten global extinction to stop the agressor from letting the rockets fly. The threat of extinction is still there, just the mechanisms are slower...
...instead of its population centers: this way, the other nation's retalitory power is immediately demolished. The ability to do this is termed first-strike capability. A non-aggressor nation, on the other hand, merely wants to forestall attack. This it does by aiming its missles at potential agressor's cities as a retalitory threat: then it protects these retalitory missiles with ABMS. This is described as a second-strike capability...
...Even with the most powerful defenses, an agressor in possession of the effective number could place his bombs on the chosen target to cause hideous damage. Should such an atomic attack be launched against the United States, its reaction would be swift and resolute...
...showed qualities of leadership and intelligence which have been often lacking in their actions nearer home. Following the trend of the times, they successfully defeated the Oxford Pledge group, compromised on an anti-conscription resolution, and stood out firmly for a policy of placing economic sanctions on an agressor nation. Their ability was recognized when Robert Lane '39 was elected to the National Chairmanship by students from all over the North American continent...
...League of Nations, and she had her fingers badly burnt, because the nations of the world did not have the moral courage or intelligent foresight to see that Britain's cause would ultimately be their's. It seems reasonably sure that no nation will again try to punish an agressor, unless the United States is prepared to lend all of her power and prestige to "quarantine" the nation that has been judged the agressor...