Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...must end it [the North Vietnamese aggression] without producing a bigger war; I reject the arguments of some to use nuclear weapons. But we must also end it without producing another war. Many of the peace proposals could end the war, but they would produce another war--possibly in Asia or in other areas; this would strengthen the hawks in Red China and the Soviet Union...
...force requires superior force, and that in the test of battle no nation is apt to choose defeat without resorting to its maximum weapons. Therefore, deterrence appears plausible during peace, but once conflict begins, reliance on force ultimately provides no outcome other than ignominious defeat, unrelenting stalemate, or nuclear immolation. The nature of war has changed, and futility of the method rather than discretion in its use would have been a truer message...
...seemingly incompatible goals of the council: to spread its ecumenical net as wide as possible and to make Christianity more responsive to modern social issues. Representatives of the "new churches" of Africa and Asia want the council to take a strong stand on such questions as economic "colonialism" and nuclear armaments. But the numerically potent Orthodox churches of Eastern Europe and the Near East, says one council staffer, "don't give a hoot about secular problems...
...work for nothing but the world's abuse, if South Viet Nam is left to its fate, then what will follow, as surely as Austria followed the Rhineland, and Czechoslovakia followed Austria, and Poland followed Czechoslovakia and six years of world war followed Poland, is a nuclear confrontation on a global scale between the forces at present engaged in one tiny corner of the globe...
...offices, then reproduced it right down to the paper shredder in the basement. Yes, Phelps ends up crawling through chutes leading to the shredder. With a budget of $185,000 a show, M:I has no trouble coming up with an astonishing array of the latest devices of nuclear-age espionage. Says Staff Writer William Read Woodfield: "We like to think that the CIA is awake and watching us. The CIA isn't saying. But just in case, shred this...