Word: holocaust
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...orbit, climbed only a few feet before a valve misfunctioned and the rocket fell back on its pad. Thin-walled fuel tanks ruptured, and more than 100 tons of liquid oxygen and kerosene burst into flames. The hydrogen-burning second stage added tons of liquid hydrogen to the holocaust. The 120-man launching crew dared not emerge from their dugout for 21 hours...
...nation, in population resources, to follow this policy of turning countries into strategic hamlets when Communism threatens. U.S. planners recognize this: they count on the threat of nuclear war to keep Russians and Chinese from responding to American bombing in North Vietnam. Although the U.S. can threaten a holocaust if China re-escalates, the fact is that nuclear weapons cannot win the kind of war the government engages in to oppose the spread of Communism...
...later have to take the risk of war with China-care ful and calculated but still a risk. The U.S. held on to West Berlin and ejected Soviet missiles from Cuba only by a calculated risk of war with the Soviet Union. Short of an all-out nuclear holocaust, which would level American cities, China after all stands to lose much more from a war than the U.S. So long as the U.S. creates the impression that it will do anything in Southeast Asia short of facing the real enemy-either militarily or diplomatically-China can simply sit back...
...only would a war policy insure for Vietnamese and Americans a far bloodier struggle than the one in which they are now engaged, but a new drawn-out Korea would threaten the whole with nuclear holocaust. At home Americans would have to shelve indefinitely the issues of poverty, unemployment, and civil rights, in order to divert their creative energies to the destructiveness...
...Germany in 1955, was written on scraps of paper at Theresienstadt; yet it is a book that breathes a spirit of peace and hope. Writing a theology of history, Baeck traces the unfolding of Judaism's central concepts-Torah, Talmud, Halacha-from the Exodus to the Nazi holocaust and the creation of modern Israel. The history of Judaism, he says, is a story of a people's encounters with God; the Jews were the first to perceive the unique oneness of God, the first to proclaim that true freedom is only to be found in compliance with...