Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Indo-China is one of the five critical places on earth that are most vulnerable to Communist attack (the other four: Formosa, Germany, Yugoslavia, Iran). If Indo-China falls, all of southeast Asia is likely to go. The U.S. position in the Philippines would be outflanked. The weak governments of...
Behind the low-rolling smoke of battle in Korea looms the most terrifying of all war clouds: the topless mushroom of the atomic bomb. Will the Russians make an atom-bomb attack on the U.S.? If it comes, what is the defense? Is there any defense? Last week the Atomic...
To avoid the disaster of inadequate medical help at the critical time, said Bradford, the U.S. should abolish the separate medical services of the Army, Navy and Air Force, and establish a simple, unified medical command, directly responsible to the Secretary of Defense. Once established, the unified service must then...
"Efficient civilian defense planning could well be the difference between a serious and a fatal disaster. For example, it is estimated that with only twelve minutes' warning as against no warning, and under efficiently planned civilian defense, the casualties in a city hit by an atomic bomb could be...
For the next two days, an armada of boats and planes scouted his bearing and the general path the DC-4 should have taken. Storm static scrambled radio contact between the search parties; mist and night fog hampered visibility. But toward the end of the second day, not far from...