Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...translation of an understandable, desirable U.S. foreign policy [Jan. 9] is a masterpiece of journalistic expression. When set against the background of urgency so aptly described in your story on the H-bomb [April 12, 1954], TIME shows consistent national leadership unmatched in modern newswriting...
...many times as fast as the sound of their coming, hit London in 1944. If they had carried atomic warheads, they would have reduced much of England to radioactive rubble. No military nation missed this chilling lesson. War had taken on a new dimension; even before the first atomic bomb, it took little imagination to picture dozens of deadly duties that missiles could perform...
...high-ranking Air Force officers and prospective draftees, it means inevitably a diminishing ability to handle the possible "brush-fire" wars that threaten sporadically in the Near and Far East. In other words, comes an act of aggression, we will then have to choose between using the atomic bomb (and very likely starting World War III) or backing out. This is high-stake gambling, which depends on the presumption that potential enemies who are as well equipped as we are with fissionable play-things will be deterred...
...deterrance, but of a different kind. It envisions a stalemate, in which neither side will want to be first on the atomic draw. It points to the impertinent and yet accurate predictions of the Chinese Communists that they go could provoke us plenty before we would throw an atomic bomb at them. Ridgway's answer is an adequate, up-to-date, highly mobile Army, which, if necessary, can fight and win localized wars. Ridgway and his followers believe that the mere existence of such an Army will deter would-be aggressors from adventures that might end in defeat and humiliation...
Last week the zone's disenchanted nationalists gave Spanish Morocco its first taste of terrorism in years: a bomb burst in a Tetuan cafe, another was hurled at a bus. Demonstrators shouting for "independence and unity" stormed through Arcila...