Word: accidentally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...start and end Fail-Safe with the thesis that war by accident is possible-terrifyingly possible-an assumption already granted by SAC, President Kennedy, Secretary of Defense McNamara, Premier Khrushchev, and half a dozen Nobel prizewinning scientists. TIME, on the other hand, seems to be asserting that accidental war is fanciful, unlikely, and that even to discuss it comes close to being unpatriotic...
...University of California's Eugene Burdick, who also co-authored The Ugly American, and Washington and Lee's Harvey Wheeler. One reason for Fail-Safe's great success is found in the authors' introduction. "There is." they say. "substantial agreement among experts that an accidental war is possible and that its probability increases with the increasing complexity of the man-machine components which make up our defense system . . . This is, unfortunately, a 'true' story. The accident may not occur in the way we describe, but the laws of probability assure us that ultimately...
A Million Strokes. If medical scientists had to rely on the study of healthy people to find out how the brain works, they would know even less about it than they do. But an accident in a brain artery is one of the most dramatic and disabling illnesses that can...
What happens in a stroke (which doctors call a cerebrovascular accident or CVA) seems superficially simple: a shutdown of any kind in one of the arteries in the neck or head cuts off the essential supply of blood and oxygen to part of the brain, which then "dies." For unlike...
Bent Necks. American Livestock's biggest competitor is Hartford Live Stock Insurance Co. ($1,250,000 in 1962 premiums), a subsidiary of Hartford Fire Insurance Co., which covers mostly saddle horses, cattle and dogs. New York's Animal Insurance Co. of America ($700,000 in premiums) writes most...