Word: bombing
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Never in history has a nation applied military power with more painstaking precision and reasoned restraint than the U.S. has in its bombing of North Viet Nam. The only targets that U.S. pilots may attack are the enemy's men and materiel heading south, the roads and trails they take and the weaponry thrown at American aircraft. From prestrike photo reconnaissance to leaflet warnings dropped in advance, every effort is made to avoid hitting civilians and residential areas. Nowhere is the effort greater than around Hanoi, the Red capital, currently home to some 300,000 people. It was precisely...
...Clatter. A dozen Air Force F-105 Thunderchiefs highballed down the main line from the northeast and blasted the rail yards, then continued on over Hanoi, bomb racks empty, before wheeling for home. About the same time, some 20 Navy planes swooped in from the southeast, off their carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin, to raze the used-car lot; and then headed back without passing over the city...
Most Frenchmen seem a little bored with the grandeur of De Gaulle. These days, they find glory enough in a little Gallic warrior who has a droopy yellow mustache and wears a winged beanie, whose force de frappe is not a nuclear bomb but a magic potion that contains-as a bow to the French palate-lobster. The whole nation has come to adore a comic-book hero whose name suggests a mere footnote to history. He is Astérix Le Gaulois, leader of a hilarious village of "unsubdued and irksome" Gauls still holding out against Caesar...
Meselson admits that CB weaponry is less unpredictable as a strategic weapon. But if we are interested in larger areas, we already have the Bomb...
...such guarantees for CB arms, Meselson maintains. Although they are not cheap now, they will be once the pioneering stage is completed. The result, he suggests, could be disastrous. "Today, a madman in America might climb to the top of a tower for a shooting spree, or put a bomb in an airplane. But if CB weaponry were conventional, maniacs would constitute an enormous threat. An insane man could wipe out New York City...