annihilation

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While Vance was praising a technical framework designed to facilitate a regional ceasefire, the president was threatening the total annihilation of his negotiating partners, completely undermining his vice president’s diplomatic messaging.

From Salon • Jun. 22, 2026

“Black milk of dawn,” “your golden hair Margarete,” “your ashen hair Shulamit”: the poem sets German culture and Jewish annihilation to a cadence so memorable that its memorability becomes part of its danger.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

In 2022, during the last review of the treaty considered the cornerstone of non-proliferation, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned humanity was "one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation."

From Barron's • Apr. 27, 2026

"What we're trying to point out in this paper is that you could have a different kind of environmental dependence, even if the annihilation probability is constant in the center of the galaxy," explains Krnjaic.

From Science Daily • Apr. 10, 2026

The wings next to their own wings would shade into vacancy, until each bird was a lonely sound in cold annihilation, a presence after uncreation.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White