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...contingency plans to drop the atomic bomb on China in the 1950s. The National Archives today released an April 17, 1954 memo (signed by the secretary to the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Eisenhower Administration), which spells out plans to bomb China if the Chinese violated the tenuous truce that ended the Korean War. "In light of the enemy capability to launch a massive ground offensive, U.S. air support operations, including use of atomic weapons, will be employed to inflict maximum destruction of enemy forces," the memo says. (Eisenhower later admitted to using nuclear brinkmanship to move along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLD WAR . . . HIROSHIMA, NAGASAKI, BEIJING? | 12/12/1994 | See Source »

Throughout most of the game, Harvard and Colby traded goals, with Harvard maintaining a tenuous one-goal lead. But then Colby took the lead to 5 with a late score and garnered the victory...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: W. Icers Take 3rd In Match | 11/15/1994 | See Source »

...doesn't matter how many women are elected to Congress today or in the future. As long as there are no society-wide provisions to help people cope with the increasing complexities of modern life, then the tenuous scaffolding that many of us have erected to support our individual enterprises will collapse...

Author: By Lorraine Lezama, | Title: The Good Mother | 11/8/1994 | See Source »

...Harvard defense did hold the Northeastern attack to one goal, even if that grasp seemed to be as tenuous as possible...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Field Hockey Upsets #8 Northeastern | 10/27/1994 | See Source »

...that is exactly what Rabin has done ever since the peace accords were signed. His hold on power is tenuous, as the Labor party only controls a few more seats than the right-wing Likud, and in another election he could very well lose. His ruling coalition is fragile as well, barely holding the majority of seats...

Author: By David J. Andorsky, | Title: Nobel Booby Prize | 10/19/1994 | See Source »

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