Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idea of atomic bombs falling on China's densely populated cities has alarmed neutralist-minded Asians everywhere, and many non-Asians as well. "Massive retaliation" may be an eye-catching slogan, but it is time that the Administration re-evaluated its applicability to the facts of possible war in Asia...
...determination to destroy the Communist regime in China, even though Russia would be almost forced to enter the war to prevent the defeat of her chief partner. And massive atomic retaliation means total war against a civilian population, with disastrous consequences even in non-Communist world opinion. Non-Communist Asia would surely turn against the West and anti-American feeling in our European allies would rise to new heights...
Under present military circumstances, the United States should be able to repulse Chinese aggression in Asia without resorting the use of atomic or hydrogen bombs on China's cities. Conventional military weapons could probably stop any attack on Formosa, in view of the evident Chinese weakness in sea-power. If the Communists launched a mass offensive in Korea, the United States might find it necessary to employ tactical atomic weapons. But there is an essential distinction between these tactical atomic weapons--such as artillery shells and airplane rockets--and large atomic and hydrogen bombs. Informed military men say that...
Despite its faults, The Drum is never dull. Always alive with some new piece of skullduggery, the picture moves quickly through that simpler age when Knives and rifles, not jet planes and propaganda leaflets, decided who would control Asia...
Barghoorn's studies have verified that Indian corn is a native to the New World, not to Asia as previously theorized. He has also applied paleontological research to evaluation of climatic change in North America as deduced from the record of prehistoric plant life...