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The amount of explosive in the most formidable of them was some twenty pounds, roughly one-hundredth of a ton of ___.

A few hundred ___ pieces were deployed in the three-day battle of Gettysburg.

That balloon was a ___ of air forces and strategic bombing and reconnaissance satellites.

At the very end of World War II, the United States used the first atomic bombs to ___ two Japanese cities.

A ___ could kill a few dozen people.

When you are led by specific evidence to form a general principle, or generalization, you are following ___.

___ is the repetitive use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis

___ is a structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses

The souls that perished here would find the ___ of which we are now capable unspeakable.

Even a small fraction of the strategic arsenals could without question annihilate the two ___ superpowers, probably destroy the global civilization, and possibly render the human species extinct.

Carl Sagan uses inductive reasoning when he presents ___—examples and facts from past wars and then, from these, makes a generalization about warfare.

The art of using language effectively and persuasively

Let me mention one, a phrase that was uttered not far from this spot by Abraham Lincoln: "With ___ toward none, with charity for all. . . ."

An assertion, usually supported by evidence

Our challenge is to ___, not after the carnage and the mass murder, but instead of the carnage and the mass murder.