Let us summarize this phenomenon:
\- Two bombs interrupt the war in the Pacific, and several dozen nuclear submarines are enough to ensure peaceful coexistence . . .
This is its numerical aspect.
\- With the appearance of the multiple thermonuclear warhead and the rapid development of tactical nuclear arms, we see the miniaturization of explosive charges . . .
This is its volu metric aspect.
\- After having cleared the planet surface of a cumbersome defensive apparatus by reducing undersea and underground strategic arms, they renounce world expanse by reducing the trouble spots and advanced bases . . .
This is its geographical aspect.
\- Once responsible for the operations, the old chiefs of war, strategists and generals, find themselves demoted and restricted to simple maintenance operations, for the sole benefit of the Chief of State . . .
This is its political aspect.
But this quantitative and qualitative s carcity doesn't stop. Time itself is no longer enough:
\- · Constantly heightened, the vectors' already quasi-supersonic capacities are superseded by the high enegies that enable us to approach the speed of light . . .
This is its spatio-temporal aspect.
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