Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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The methods of brute genocide which the United States is now carrying out in Southeast Asia are quite enough for purposes of simple aggression, but they cannot serve as the model for a policy which is designed to contain several wars of national liberation all at once. Newer and more...
American scientists are now reported to be researching a "neutron" bomb which could render large areas uninhabitable for brief periods of time in addition to wiping out all those in the vicinity of the blast. C. L. Sulzberger writes in the New York Times that the bomb's "short-lived...
There are other advantages to having such weapons at one's disposal. As Sulzberger adroitly notes, tactical nuclear bombs in the hands of the American military would "make up for the deficiency in conventional forces its own political system refuses to provide." No more dickering with popular opinion here. With...
It is possible, too, that America will find it difficult to reconcile the use of tactical atomic weapons with its present international standing. Only Russia, of course, has the power to stop them, although the U. S. holds a nuclear Sword of Damocles over even the Russians' heads; the other...
There is nothing now that can stop America from undertaking nuclear war in Southeast Asia, not even a tactical argument; even if the weapons should fail or backfire, they are all in the nature of the "experiment."