Word: destructionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"We and a majority of all nations, I believe, are united in another hope: that every government will abstain from itself attempting, or aiding others to attempt, the subversion, coercion, infiltration or destruction of other governments in order to gain political or material advantage or because of differences in philosophies...
Farther south, Diem's young army, proving more efficient than critics expected, broke the resistance of the rebellious armed Hoa Hao sect. One of Hoa Hao's top warlords, General Lam Thanh Nguyen, slipped into Saigon to seek surrender terms. Diem received him with an ultimatum: bring all...
Citation: "Squarejawed in the conviction that America's only hope for survival is in unified effort for peace backed by firm international agreement to combat aggression, he graces the launching platform of the U.N. as a self-guided missile with a homing instinct, primed for a global trajectory, and...
Hiroshima. A propaganda-heavy but harrowing Japanese-made film about the atomic destruction of a living city (TIME, May 23).
Hiroshima. A propaganda-heavy but harrowing Japanese-made film about the atomic destruction of a living city (TIME, May 23).