Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rise of a new Opposition. It was the Opposition to Communism and to the occupying Red armies, and it was rising in the countries where any opposition was a miracle. The might of the Red armies, the vigor and vigilance of the Communist parties had not been enough to prevent this phenomenon in Hungary, Austria, Rumania, Bulgaria, Poland, Yugoslavia...
Advising against pinning hopes on such "terrible weapons as the atomic bomb," President Conant went on to point out that fear of retaliation would not prevent nations from attacking with the bomb. "Poison gas," he said, "was held in check during World War II, not because it was outlawed, but because it was ineffective." The Atomic Bomb, he remarked, is effective...
...great lesson, said the board: "The best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring. . . . The combination of the atomic bomb with remote-control projectiles of ocean-spanning range stands as a possibility which is awesome and frightful to contemplate...
Atomic bombs are small enough to be hidden inside "a grand piano, a chest of drawers, of sofa," asserted Ridenour. The spying and intelligence work needed to prevent the erection of such mines in our cities would "render everyday peaceful life all but intolerable...
...riled most tempers in Montreal. There the International Air Transport Association, with representatives of 44 airlines of 24 nations, was soberly discussing fare agreements to prevent cutthroat rate wars on international routes. They had just agreed to consult each other in fixing fares when Pan Am's bombshell exploded, disrupting discussions for a day. The baffled airmen felt that their cozy talk of fare fixing-and most thought Pan Am's new fare far too low-were just words in the teeth of a gale...