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| | NWC Review, Autumn 2000: van Creveld (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | To the people who had gone through the world war and whose job it was to look into the future, the outstanding characteristic of twentieth-century total warfare had been the states ability to mobilize massive resources and use them for creating and deploying equally massive armed forces. |
 | | A single bomber getting through would destroy the target just as surely as Hiroshima and Nagasaki had been, to say nothing of the damage that radiation, fallout, and electromagnetic pulse were capable of doing to entire geographic regions. |
 | | From Argentina and Brazil through Canada, Western and Eastern Europe, all the way to Taiwan, Korea (both North and South), Japan, Australia, and probably New Zealand, several dozen others were prepared to construct bombs quickly; at any rate, they were capable of doing so if they put their minds to it. |
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