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...Smith lost all three of his company commanders, had 24 of his 28 helicopters hit or disabled, got only half his troops on the ground and into battle. But reinforcements tried again, and in two days of short, brutal clashes, the Eagles rammed the Viet Cong backward into a holocaust of bombs and napalm from U.S. planes, finally turned the field over to the incoming 1st Cavalry Airmobile (TIME, Sept. 24), somewhat bloody but purged of the V.C. For all the hail of lead, U.S. losses were surprisingly light. The Viet Cong left 226 dead, many of them elite troops...
Nuclear war, carried to holocaust, may yet scour the plan-Earth; the "ultimate deterrent" may become, in Julian Huxley's phrase, the "ultimate detergent." But it is a valid interim observation that The Bomb seems to be keeping peace quite effectively among its possessors, bearing out ChurchiII's ironic comment that he "looked forward with great confidence to the potentiality of universal destruction." Illogically, the general feeling that nuclear war equals suicide or surrender has induced a similar sentiment among some that any war is unthinkable. But a Pentagon count of conventional wars since 1945 adds...
...Here were two former colonial states, both Asian and both underdeveloped, at each other's throats. Yet Communist China tirelessly reiterates that it is precisely such nations-the "have nots" of Asia, Africa and Latin America-that must eventually encircle the West and destroy it in a worldwide holocaust of "people's wars." Time and again, Peking has shown its readiness to provoke such wars and to support them to the death-the death, that is, of every last Pakistani, Vietnamese, Malayan, Algerian or Cuban...
...outweighs the fruits of victory, in a war suitable to the enemy, in a place and under conditions that no military man in his right mind would choose, in a war which threatens to escalate into a major power confrontation and which could esca late into a nuclear holocaust. I am sure the President has carefully contemplated the danger of permitting the United States to be bogged down in an endless war in Asia, thus leaving the Soviets free to work their machinations in Latin America, in the Mediterranean basin, in Europe, and perhaps elsewhere. Vacuums are tempting-they might...
...JAPAN, with bitter memories of Hiroshima, is emotionally even more reluctant than India to make the bomb. Militarily and politically, however, it has the same incentive: fear of Red China, which has already threatened the Japanese with a nuclear "holocaust" in the event of an atomic war. Since Japan has to import reactor fuels under strict controls, it is not at present likely to become a nuclear power. However, if Peking grows ever more menacing and New Delhi opts for the bomb, Japan might try to obtain its uranium from India...