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Terrorism
JUNE 1914: a young man in Sarajevo steps up to a carriage and fires his pistol.
The Archduke Ferdinand dies. Within weeks, the first world war has begun. The
1940s: the French resistance kill occupying troops when and how they can. June
1944: at Oradour-sur-Glane, in central France, German SS troops take revenge,
massacring 642 villagers. August 1945: the United States Air Force drops the
world's first nuclear weapons ....
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.... political.
Terrorism has a long, if tainted,. pedigree. Aristotle recognized it, even if it
had no name at the time, when he wrote that "the first aim and end of tyrants is
to break the spirit of their subjects." What we know as terrorism can be traced
to the Russian nihilists and anarchists of the 19th century, who gave a name to
what would otherwise be considered "random acts of violence" that were performed
to advance their revolutionary cause. They elevated terrorism ....
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