annihilation

Our parents faced the prospect of annihilation by the Soviets.

I don't think that many are arguing that it's going to be an obvious complete annihilation.

There was no constantl stream of news on dangers of evil empires and scare us with total annihilation.

I grew up with the threat of nuclear annihilation, burning cities, race riots, out of control crime, etc, etc.

It felt like for my whole life the world was trapped in a Mexican standoff, and the inevitable result was the annihilation of all life on the planet.

This isn't surprising: war is one of those times when there's a good argument for borrowing against the future, because the alternative is annihilation.

It would help if you have a stamped letter from the Emperor attesting that your freelance web programming skills are the only thing standing between Japan and total annihilation.

Apparently even very thin interstellar gas would generate a lot of energy in matter/antimatter annihilations.

If we weren't fighting for a world where citizens can speak up about the crimes of their governments, what were we fighting for?The destruction of our enemies, the annihilation of their ideology, the power of our ruling class.

An explanation I have heard from a physisicist is: if there were regions of the universe where antimatter is dominant, the boundaries where they border normal matter space would be extremely bright from the annihilation reactions.

Seeing an anomalous excess of gamma rays from the center of the galaxy whose energy and distribution is consistent with some theories which predict dark matter annihilation would be "indirect detection".Naturally, direct measurements have a much larger impact on your Bayesian credences than indirect ones.

Is this any surprise for people who grew up in a country where invading countries on false pretexts was seen as the right thing to do, where criticizing the government was seen as bad no matter what the reasons are, and where the threat of terrorism is somehow hyped up far beyond the perceived threat of nuclear annihilation in the Cold War?I saw this coming when the WTC rubble was still smoking.