Sentences with phrase «modern weapons of war»

A primary objective of education today, in homes, in schools, and through the mass media of communication, should be the full and forceful dissemination of knowledge about the extreme destructiveness of modern weapons of war and about the awful consequences for everybody which would result from their use in any large - scale conflict.

Not exact matches

This challenge is an intensification of the question that has been around since at least the advent of nuclear weapons, namely, «Can modern war be just?»

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Would he have gone down a different path had he known the terrible cost of fighting a defensive war with modern weapons?

All three of the main political parties are stuck in a dangerous Cold War time warp, unable to see that the world has changed and that modern security threats such as climate change and fundamentalism can't be tackled with nuclear weapons.

The industrial - scale slaughter of the first world war is often blamed on a clash of 19th - century tactics and 20th - century weapons, including tanks, aircraft, modern artillery and machine guns.

If the abundance of agriculture may be too much for some tastes, the film subtly reveals how farming methods grew increasingly industrialized over the years: Just as the armies of the Great War employed modern weapons like tanks and airplanes for the first time, so the Paridiers begin to use combines and tractors to yield more crops with less labor.

By the end of World War II, coastal defense had changed dramatically and the artillery system was replaced by modern air power, amphibious warfare, and nuclear weapons.

Battlefield 1's historical setting helps it to stand apart from the rest of the modern military shooters on the market with all new weapons, vehicles, and level designs that feel fresh and capture the chaos and brutality of war.

Focusing on World War I, where automatic weapons were rare and combat tactics were far from refined, Battlefield 1 stands in sharp contrast to much of the modern shooter landscape.

The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art - including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko - as a weapon in the Cold War.

However, consider that one of the key factors making the Civil War so bloody was the unleashing of modern quantities of weapons created and transported in part thanks to the full integration of coal into our industrial economy.

[But] the proliferation of nuclear weapons has rendered modern war unthinkable, at least between the Western powers, so the traditional method of avoiding collapse by starting a war is no longer available.