Word: destructionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wetern leaders hope that the 1955 relaxation and the new developments indicate a Communist realization that nuclear war, in President Eisenhofer's words, "does not present the possibility of victory or defeat, only the alternative in degree of destruction." The history of the past eleven years of talks has never...
The initial task of the contractors, the McCutcheon Co., will be the destruction of the clay tennis courts which now occupy the construction site behind Moors Hall
IN the blood-gushing days of the 1930s, Frank Brewster, chief slugger for the Teamsters' Union on the West Coast, once walloped a cop in a picket-line brawl, was hauled off to headquarters, beaten almost to death -and arose from his knees to cut a swath of destruction...
In mid-1953 Colonel Schriever, in charge of development planning for Air Force headquarters, was one of the R and D officers who felt-and he proclaimed what he felt insistently-that a full survey of future nuclear warhead design ought to be made so as to shrink the cumbersome...
Throughout the book runs the echo of the new era, recalling the sky-splitting trajectory of a jet plane that catches Sam's eye at the opening of the story. The choice between destruction and survival is implicit even in the work of the foundation, which divides its time between...