Word: anti-personnel
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...Anti-personnel, or "cluster" bombs, contained 600,000 tiny pellets, which upon detonation shot across an area of one square kilometer. They were not meant to kill, merely to maim...
...murders at Kent and Jackson State, "there was a lot of disillusionment" among radicals at Harvard, Smith says. Attracted by the alternative lifestyle, many radicals moved to the Quad. Subsequently, radical groups such as the New American Movement (NAM), and events such as the protest against Honeywell (which manufactured anti-personnel weapons) emanated from the Quad...
...bomber, the cruise missile, and the M-X missile. It has also argued for the acceptance of the concept of "counterforce" which legitimates "limited nuclear wars" and "surgical strikes" against "enemy" positions. The fruits of this doctrine have been the neutron bomb, the first nuclear anti-personnel weapon: it kills only people. Within hours, an invading army can move in and take over the dead "enemy's" economic political facilities which would have been left standing. The Pentagon has tried to blur any distinction between conventional weapons and both tactical and strategic nuclear weapons and within this context...
...military contracts. Since 1945, only two per cent of state and corporate money has been given to social sciences, apparently in the belief that studying different political and social systems might make future technical workers too critical to heed thoughtlessly commands to maximize kill densities for Honeywell's latest "anti-personnel" weapon or Dow Chemical's napalm account...
...their sense of justice and tradition inflicted prolonged punishment on people from a distant country. For the precise correctness of Kafka's officer there was the clinical detachment of various Rostows and Kissingers. For the mechanical sharpness of the harrow there were the exploding blades of the latest anti-personnel bombs. And though the Vietnamese refused to play the part of Kafka's passive lawbreaker, they, too--even in the act of fighting back--could decipher their suffering's meaning, if violence on such a scale can be said to have a hidden meaning, with their wounds...