THE SLIDE TO TOTAL AIR WAR.

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  • Author(s): Sherry, Michael
  • Source:
    New Republic. 12/16/81, Vol. 185 Issue 24, p20-25. 6p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      WEAPONS; WORLD War II; FIREARMS; BOMBINGS; ANNIVERSARIES
    • Subject Terms:
      PEARL Harbor (Hawaii)
    • Abstract:
      Focuses on the modern weapons of war in the light of the 40th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Information that the accuracy and destructiveness of new devices like the machine gun made killing so efficient that nations, it was thought, could no longer sustain long wars and might shrink from them altogether; Information that World War I shattered the complacent faith in the humaneness of modern weapons, now seen as producing senseless carnage rather than sudden victory; Argument that bombing had become a kind of doomsday fantasy, not a believable danger.