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Because each of our rivals alone is still weaker than us — Russia struggling to defeat Ukraine, Iran fearful of Saudi-Israeli cooperation, China busy alienating its neighbors — we can hope to find ways to restrain each of them short of annihilatory war.

What could be driving such an annihilatory wave to almost unimaginable levels?

Moreover, this openly annihilatory commitment is more or less common to both Israel's Sunni Arab foes, and to Shiite non-Arab Iran.

They are: Theodore Schwann, the anatomist, to whom modern biology owes its foundation by the establishment of the cell theory; Claude Bernard, the physiologist, to whom we are indebted for the great biological ideas of nervous inhibition and internal glandular secretion; finally Louis Pasteur, the chemist-bacteriologist, to whom is due the refutation of the annihilatory abiologic doctrine of spontaneous generation, and the discoveries that have revolutionized modern medicine and promise to accomplish as great a revolution in modern manufactures and industries.

He notes the “annihilatory daylight” in Nevada and thinks that it makes sense that atomic bombs were tested there, “because the nuclear explosions blend in with a typical morning.”