Word: destructionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While developing an arsenal of ballistic missiles for retaliatory or offensive power, the U.S. is also working on defense against Russian ICBMs. Until recently, scientists and military men generally agreed that a nuclear-armed ICBM, hurtling toward its target at 15,000 m.p.h., would be an "ultimate weapon," against which...
Despite outbreaks of violence and destruction, the major achievement of the day was left intact: nine Negroes spent a full day in Central High School.
The battle may well be remembered longer for the Allied destruction of the historic monastery (founded A.D. 529) that crowned Monte Cassino than for the men who fought and died there. Author Majdalany concedes that there were probably no German troops within the monastery precincts, and that militarily the buildings...
Limited war, Kissinger maintains, need not lead either to all-out H-bomb war or to stalemate; linked with diplomacy, it strives for specific political gains. For every new Communist aggression, it promises a punishing limited setback, a setback that the enemy will reluctantly accept because the loss is not...
Britain's 30-day war in the Oman desert sputtered to an end last week with the destruction of the last remaining mud-walled rebel forts, and the flight into the mountains of the rebel Imam of Oman himself, his rascally brother Talib and their only remaining ally of...