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Watercolor is tricky stuff, an amateur's but really a virtuoso's medium. It is the most light-filled of all ways of painting, but its luminosity depends on the white of the paper shining through thin washes of pigment. One has to work from light to dark, not (as...
At first the accident appeared to have chilling overtones of Chernobyl. A Soviet Yankee I-class submarine on patrol in the Atlantic had been crippled by an explosion and fire that had killed three crew members, and had surfaced about 550 miles east of Bermuda. Of immediate concern: the sub...
As it turned out, there were few parallels with last spring's disaster at Chernobyl. For one thing, Mikhail Gorbachev notified Ronald Reagan of the accident the day after it happened, winning praise from the President and the State Department for his candor. More important, Soviet officials announced that there...
...accident might set off the missile warheads. A nuclear device, unlike older conventional explosives, cannot be detonated simply by a physical shock. The fission and then fusion reactions that must occur to explode an H-bomb can take place only if the weapon is armed electronically, which cannot happen accidentally. The warheads in the damaged tube "were obviously blown apart in the force of the explosion," says Vice Admiral Powell Carter Jr., director of the Joint Staff. Whether their remnants burned up or sank to the bottom of the ocean, they pose no danger; undetonated warheads contain only a small...
Shortly afterward the young singer-composer would release four more albums and become the paradigm of the culture he had helped to create: part shaman, part avatar and, as he was to suggest in a later song, part jokerman too. The cumulative heat and emotional pressure became too much, even...