Word: battlefield
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Medical interest in the phenomenon began on the battlefield, where the devastating effects of chronic stress are unmistakable. During the Civil War, for example, palpitations were so commonplace that they became known as "soldier's heart." During World War I, the crippling anxiety called shell shock was at first attributed to the vibrations from heavy artillery, which was believed to damage blood vessels in the brain. This theory was abandoned by the time World War II came along, and the problem was renamed battle fatigue. By then the great Harvard physiologist Walter Cannon, along with Selye, had proved that...
From the very beginning of the cold war, Western military planners have been preoccupied by a single goal in case of war: keeping columns of Soviet tanks and troops from reaching the heart of Europe. When the U.S. held a decisive nuclear edge, NATO threats to use battlefield nukes against the Warsaw Pact's numerically superior armies were a very effective deterrent. But the Soviets continued to strengthen both their nuclear and their conventional forces. As a result, Europeans began to be concerned that the U.S. would not use its nuclear arms to defend the Continent, for fear...
...report acknowledges European fears that a nuclear exchange on the battlefield could not be limited and would quickly turn into a continent-wide holocaust. It suggests that a buildup of conventional forces is a credible alternative because it would provide NATO commanders with a greater range of options for checking a Soviet advance, thus making the use of nuclear weapons less likely. To repel the first invasion forces in a Warsaw Pact blitzkrieg across Central Europe, the committee of strategists urged NATO to acquire more sophisticated ground-and air-launched conventional missile systems that could be targeted at Soviet bloc...
...opener and flattening parking meters and lampposts. The blast, thought to be the worst incident of urban terrorism in South African history, killed at least 17 people and injured almost 200 others. Said a stunned eyewitness: "The whole scene, with dead and dying in the street, looked like a battlefield...
...Battlefield Earth, Hubbard...