Incidents such as the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean and Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans in 2005, have provided deadly evidence of the power of nature to wreak destruction and throw human communities into chaos.
Mr Ullman wrote that the use of air power to achieve "nearly incomprehensible levels of mass destruction" could achieve "an overwhelming level of shock and awe against an adversary on an immediate basis to paralyse its will to resist".
And Ahmadinejad added fuel to his virulent anti-Israel stance, saying Monday that Israel will soon disappear off the map and that the satanic power of the United States faces destruction.
The bipolar international structure of the Cold War is often warmly remembered as a time when the balance of power - aided by the commonly understood inevitability of mutual assured destruction - ensured a relatively peaceful world where a war between the superpowers was largely unfeasible.
Adenauer's ascension was only possible after the total destruction of the Nazi power apparatus.
For some within the supply-side community who believe in creative destruction and the natural power of an economy to renew itself, the solution is stable money (which Federal quantitative easing prevents) reducing the regulatory burden and increasing the capital to labor ratio.
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For example, changes in the Sun's activity can send huge amounts of energy towards the Earth which buffet and reconfigure the magnetosphere, causing disruption to communications, power-line failures and even the destruction of satellites.
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First, we believe the overwhelming power of the United States guarantees that any North Korean attack would, eventually, result in the utter destruction of the regime.
When America in the Gulf War spared his life and left him in power, he solemnly agreed to stop developing weapons of mass destruction.
Absent Iraqi compliance, however, the U.S. (and such allied forces as are willing to participate) should move swiftly and with deadly effect against his regime, its power base and particularly its lethal arsenal of weapons of mass destruction.
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America will attempt to seize facilities thought to contain weapons of mass destruction, or disable them by cutting power supplies or bombing.
For as long as Saddam Hussein is in power in Baghdad, he will seek to acquire weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them.
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Critical infrastructure such as bridges, railways, airports, and power grids become primary targets, there is looting and destruction of company assets all of which is accompanied by a run on banks. for rival factions.
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This comes after weeks of spotty polling, in which wide-scale power outages and destruction made it difficult to find a truly random opinion sample.
"Senator Lugar is the first senior U.S. official to say what many privately understand, but evidently lack the courage or perspicacity to say publicly: There can be no lasting peace in the Middle East as long as Saddam Hussein remains in power and retains at his disposal an arsenal replete with weapons of mass destruction, " Frank J.
The tornado that hit Moore, Oklahoma (above) with such power and destruction last Monday afternoon, was an EF5 with peak winds of about 210 miles per hour (340 kph) and was 1.3 miles wide at its peak (2.1 km).
Hundreds of thousands of people along the south coast of New England, from Connecticut to Massachusetts remain in the black with downed power lines, massive tree damage and in some cases, total destruction of beach front properties from Narragansett, Rhode Island to the iconic Boardwalk of Atlantic City.
There should be no dialogue with a theocratic dictatorship that stays in power through sheer brute force, defies the international community by developing nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction (and the means to deliver them) and exports terrorist operatives to undermine Iran's neighbors and kill our countrymen and women in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
The real trouble with bombing, though, is that it is likely to leave Mr Hussein in power, possibly strengthened, while doing little permanently to reduce his ability to make and use weapons of mass destruction.
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