Word: destructionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Two of the best working soldiers in the 27th last week were young (26), blond Captain Martin Merchant of Ilion, N.Y., and Merchant's lead platoon leader, Lieut. Doyle D. Lummis of Waco, Texas. For four long nights, Merchant, Lummis and their men had held the most advanced position...
Shock-haired, baggy-trousered British Poet Stephen Spender was also off on a nostalgia jag. "Science has provided man with the means ... of complete destruction," he told a Harvard poetry conference. "What has always been the essential condition for creating poetry-the assurance of a continuity in civilization-is lost...
"Today we face most acutely the threat of the Communist movement, international in scope, directed from a central source and committed to the overthrow of democratic institutions throughout the world," the President's message said. "The good sense of the American people [has] utterly rejected the false political appeal...
Within three-quarters of a mile of the burst, "substantial destruction of all except modern, reinforced concrete and heavy steel-frame buildings; up to 1½ miles, complete destruction of most old-style brick and frame buildings, and serious damage to modern buildings. Slight damage (plaster and glass) up to...
A bomb exploded at ground level would expend much of its energy in digging a crater. Thus the destruction, although more devastating around the detonation point, would be limited to a smaller area than in the case of an air burst. A bomb exploded under water would also lose some...