Word: amchitka
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Culture. The hardest hit of all the states has been one of the most remote. Alaska's Aleutian Island chain is littered with an enormous potpourri of debris. More than 2,000 World War II-vintage Quonset huts still poke like ugly blisters above the desolate landscape of Amchitka, the site of this month's scheduled underground nuclear blast. Bomber tails and ruptured fuselages litter the island. An estimated one million fuel drums are scattered on Alaska's north coast. At least 100,000 drums, left by builders of DEW-line radar sites in the 1950s, disfigure...
There was some speculation that he might fly directly to Peking after his meeting with Hirohito. Or that he might name a woman to the Supreme Court. Or that he might yield to protests and cancel a massive nuclear test at Amchitka Island in the Aleutians; Congress last week approved a measure putting the decision to blast or not to blast directly in Nixon's hands...
Environmentalists predicted earthquakes or other disasters when the Atomic Energy Commission exploded a one-megaton nuclear device on Alaska's Amchitka Island in 1969. In fact, the feared mishap did not occur. Now the AEC is back for another round, and so are the environmentalists...
...Nuclear Responsibility, with headquarters in Washington, D.C., and co-chaired by Nuclear Physicist John Gofman, former U.S. Senator Charles Goodell and New York Poet Leonore Marshall, brought suit in Washington's U.S. district court against the AEC. The suit noted that the underground tests, to be detonated on Amchitka in October, will be five times more powerful than the 1969 blast. It charged that such an explosion would do irreparable harm to the environment and asked the court to stop the test...