Word: antinuclear
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...know one of them has to die. Thomas Craven, the cop, is walking into his house with his 24-year-old daughter Emma (Bojana Novakovic) when she is gunned down. The official suspicion is that Craven was the target, but he soon learns that she had been engaged in antinuclear espionage at Northmoor, a nearby plant run by the usual oily CEO (Danny Huston). In streamlining the original show's cast of malefactors, which included British and U.S. corporations and intelligence agencies, trade unions and the IRA, the movie reduces the story from a panoramic conspiracy to another...
...conclusion--that the risk from low levels of exposure was 20 times as high as stated by the government--enraged the Atomic Energy Commission, which unsuccessfully tried to stop Gofman and colleague Arthur Tamplin from publishing the data. Suddenly an industry pariah and a reluctant "father" of the antinuclear movement, Gofman went on to found the Committee for Nuclear Responsibility and most recently argued that radiation was overused by doctors...
...while Tokyo seems sincere about not going nuclear now--the antinuclear sentiment in that country, for obvious reasons, runs strong and deep--there are limits to how secure Japan may come to feel under the U.S. nuclear umbrella. If North Korea proves capable of putting a nuclear warhead on a missile that can reach the U.S.--it already has short-range missiles capable of reaching Tokyo--the strategic game changes. If North Korea could nuke Japan, or blackmail it, while credibly threatening to strike the U.S. with a nuclear warhead, would Japanese officials truly believe the U.S. would retaliate against...
...senior drilling inspector at the Department of Energy's Nevada Test Site, Rufus Moore usually pays scant attention to the antinuclear protesters who often appear at the perimeter of the top-secret patch of desert 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas. The 1,350-sq.-mi. site in the Nellis Range has absorbed hundreds of underground blasts as the U.S. has fine-tuned its nuclear arsenal. For Moore, 54, a cigar-chomping veteran of hundreds of such tests, nuclear deterrence and superpower peace depend on the results. "The minute we stop testing, we're in trouble," he says...
...apartheid would take the zip out of South African fiction, Gordimer once responded: "On the contrary. We've got plenty of problems." Gordimer's Get a Life, published this month in Britain and the U.S., is a good example. It's the story of Paul Bannerman, an ecologist and antinuclear campaigner in his mid-thirties who, ironically, becomes temporarily radioactive after treatment for thyroid cancer. This "lit-up leper" is a menace to his young son and his wife, an advertising executive. So he moves into an empty wing of his parents' home. The situation is ripe for satire...