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Wouldn't the wanton destruction of cities and people be the logical act of complete subjugation??
At this point it should be painfully obvious that cities, being `` soft '', and the people within them are ideally suited to destruction by nuclear weapons.
The role of an earthquake in starting the destruction of whole cities is tremendously frightening, but fire may actually be the principal agent in a particular disaster.
For example, from Sumerian Literature we can see the same Genre that we see in the Book of Lamentations of the Funeral Dirge and Lament reflected in the Sumerian Lament: Lamentation over the Destruction of Sumer and Ur which depicts the destruction of the cities of Sumer and Ur.
# Judgment on Jerusalem and Judah ( Ezekiel 4: 1 – 24: 27 ) and on the nations ( Ezekiel 25: 1 – 32: 32 ): Yahweh warns of the certain destruction of Jerusalem and the devastation of the nations that have troubled his people, the Ammonites, Moabites, Edomites and Philistines, the Phoenician cities of Tyre and Sidon, and Egypt.
Some Biblical scholars interpret Genesis 19: 5 as indicating that homosexual activity led to the destruction of the ancient cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Enyo, a war goddess responsible with the destruction of cities and attendant of Ares, is also mentioned as a daughter of Zeus and Hera, though Homer equates her with Eris.
In 1660, a Druze revolt led to the destruction of the major Old Yishuv cities of Safed and Tiberias.
The Mongols resulted in massive destruction of many cities, including Bamiyan, Herat, and Balkh, and the despoliation of fertile agricultural areas.
As Joachim Fest notes, Goebbels seemed to take a grim pleasure in the destruction of Germany ’ s cities by the Allied bombing offensive: " It was, as one of his colleagues confirmed, almost a happy day for him when famous buildings were destroyed, because at such time he put into his speeches that ecstatic hatred which aroused the fanaticism of the tiring workers and spurred them to fresh efforts.
Bereshit ( Genesis ) treats the destruction of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by God.
There have been a number of particularly significant epidemics that deserve mention above the " mere " destruction of cities:
Israeli shelling of civilian areas in the cities of Port Said, Ismailia, and Suez on the west bank of the canal, led to high civilian casualties ( including the virtual destruction of Suez ), and contributed to the flight of some one million Egyptian internal refugees.
The 17th century destruction changed forever the appearance of Syracuse, as well as the entire Val di Noto, whose cities were rebuilt along the typical lines of Sicilian Baroque, considered one of the most typical expressions of art of Southern Italy.
The destruction of many buildings downtown, along with several failed business ventures in housing in the core, led to a reverse city-suburb wealth problem common in small cities with land to spare.
Toruń, unlike many other historic cities in Poland, escaped substantial destruction in World War II.
Graffiti on public property is common in many inner cities as part of a gang culture ; however, other more serious forms of vandalism that may take place during public unrest such as rioting can involve the willful destruction of public and private property.
In America, civil war between the Confederacy of the South and the Northern states led to massive deaths and the destruction of cities such as Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, Richmond, Virginia and Atlanta, Georgia.
The war of conquest by Frederick I Barbarossa against the Lombard cities brought the destruction of much of Milan in 1162.
Amos Nur argues that earthquakes played a major role in the destruction of Mycenae and many other cities at the end of the Bronze Age.
The only major cities to escape destruction were Novgorod and Pskov.
Throughout the late 1940s and 1950s, housing shortages caused by wartime destruction led many cities to subsidize housing blocks.
According to its architect, Secretary of Defense Harold Brown, " countervailing strategy " stressed that the planned response to a Soviet attack was no longer to bomb Russian population centers and cities primarily, but first to kill the Soviet leadership, then attack military targets, in the hope of a Russian surrender before total destruction of the USSR ( and the United States ).

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In fact the accumulation of the hardware of destruction is day by day increasing our fear of each other.
It is world-wide knowledge that any power which might be tempted today to attack the United States by surprise, even though we might sustain great losses, would itself promptly suffer a terrible destruction.
It was said that the Hetman plotted to take over the entire Hearst newspaper empire one day by means of various coups: the destruction of editors who tried to halt his course, the unfrocking of publishers whose mistakes of judgment might be magnified in secret reports to Mr. Hearst.
and Robert Sheckley's The Status Civilization ( 1960 ) describes a world which, frightened by the powers of destruction science has given it, becomes static and conformist.
They are not susceptible to wholesale destruction by ballistic missile.
Twice during the Civil War it was saved from destruction by the opposing armies by the pleas and prayers of a local minister.
Yet it seems clear that there can be no good sufficiently great, or evil repelled sufficiently grave, to warrant the destruction of mankind by man's own action.
The damage caused by Sherman's March to the Sea through Georgia in 1864 was limited to a swath, but neither Lincoln nor his commanders saw destruction as the main goal, but rather defeat of the Confederate armies.
His arrival must have occurred during the " dark ages " that followed the destruction of the Mycenaean civilization, and his conflict with Gaia ( Mother Earth ) was represented by the legend of his slaying her daughter the serpent Python.
Unlike ethanol, methanol is extremely toxic: As little as 10 ml can cause permanent blindness by destruction of the optic nerve and 30 ml ( one fluid ounce ) is potentially fatal.
Ahab himself was not a wicked person, but he was easily influenced by his wife, and this led to his destruction.
Thus 6th century Gallo-Romans of Gregory's class, surrounded by the ruins of Roman temples and public buildings, attributed the destruction they saw to the plundering raids of the Alemanni.
Nonetheless, the written sources do not mention damages wrought by fire, save the Gardens of Sallust, which were situated close to the gate by which the Goths had made their entrance ; nor is there any reason to attribute any extensive destruction of the buildings of the city to Alaric and his followers.
The full destruction of the Gepid kingdom was completed by the Avars, who overcame the Gepids in the east.
The destruction of the whole Theban army is said to only have been averted by the ability of Epaminondas, who was serving in the campaign, but not as general.
The aim of the restoration was to reverse the decay of centuries of attrition, pollution, destruction by acts of war, and misguided past restorations.
The destruction of the Assyrian capitals of Nineveh and Assur by the Babylonians, Medes and their allies ensured that much of the bilingual elite ( but not all ) were wiped out.
* 70 – The destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.
The RAND Corporation's Memorandum 5446-ISA / ARPA states: " the fact that the VC obtain most of their food from the neutral rural population dictates the destruction of civilian crops ... if they ( the VC ) are to be hampered by the crop destruction program, it will be necessary to destroy large portions of the rural economy – probably 50 % or more ".
*# The division of mankind threatens it with destruction ... Only universal cooperation under conditions of intellectual freedom and the lofty moral ideals of socialism and labor, accompanied by the elimination of dogmatism and pressure of the concealed interests of ruling classes, will preserve civilization ...
Due to recorded predictions of the destruction of the temple, the Gospel of Mark is believed by many critical scholars to have been composed around or shortly after the fall of Jerusalem due to prophecies assumed to be ex post facto regarding the destruction of the temple, and both traditional and critical scholarly consensus maintains that it was the first written of the four canonical gospels.

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