Word: attacke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...because he suppressed the opium traffic) had enough forces to defend his dilapidated capital, Taiyuan. But he could not move against the Communists who now held almost three-fifths of the province. A lot of Communists had filtered into rich south Shansi when the Government withdrew troops for the attack on Yenan. "We traded a fat cow for a skeleton," say bitter men in Taiyuan. Shansi people used to admire...
...occupied, there is no strategic bombing force that can reach the U.S. and return-today. Meanwhile the U.S. could smack the enemy's homeland with atom bombs within 48 hours, order the Navy and Marines into action to seize advance bases from which to mount an aerial attack while the job of rebuilding the nation's war potential was begun...
...Atomic attack would not necessarily be decisive. World War III, as it looks even to airmen today, would be a long, grueling battle, fought with World War II strategy and, at least at first, with World War II weapons. Soldiers argue that money and pains spent in military preparation against war prevent more disastrous expenditures to wage war itself...
...Minute Men. In any future war, doctors expect to have to cope with simultaneous mass attacks-atomic bombs, poisons (probably radioactive), viruses and bacteria-on many cities and industrial suburbs. The nation's doctors and all health facilities would have to be ready for total mobilization within 24 hours. A major problem: preventing the disruption of health services by the first attack (as happened in Hiroshima). Atomic-age warfare, military and medical men agree, would wipe out all distinction between combatants and noncombatants: there would probably be more civilian than military casualties, and doctors would have to be assigned...
Against coronary thrombosis and embolism attacks, doctors used to be fairly helpless; standard treatment was to dope the patient, give him oxygen to relieve the strain on the heart and a drug to relax the blood vessels. In most cases, patients survived one attack, succumbed to a second...