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As the dawn of the twenty-first century begins to rise on the horizon, the generations who were the product of the last five decades will look back on an era of world history characterized by archetypal forces which have counterbalanced the processes of creation and destruction of social systems and civilization. The destructiveness of warfare during the twentieth century has claimed over 40 million human lives, eliminated cultures, and ushered in the specter of the total annihilation of the human race with the advent of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, near the end of World War II.
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Harel, Z., Kahana, B., Wilson, J.P. (1993). War and Remembrance. In: Wilson, J.P., Raphael, B. (eds) International Handbook of Traumatic Stress Syndromes. The Plenum Series on Stress and Coping. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2820-3_22
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