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		_airh on Feb 13, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Fifty is awake again People said the same thing after WWI. ...and they were right. WWII was fought differently from WWI.

fuzzmeister on Feb 13, 2012 [–]

With WWI or WWII era technology, it would take a great power months, even years to destroy the population of another. Now? Less than an hour.

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