Word: antinuclearism
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...Hell No, We Won't Glow" But the antinuclear movement strikes some sparks...
Formal schooling ended for Smith at the tenth grade. Then, through more than 20 years of self-education and training programs, he learned to master topics like atomic weights, valences and isotopes. Ironically, Smith loved the work. His testimony may have made him a hero to antinuclear activists?and all the more so in the wake of Three Mile Island?but for Smith the workaday life with plutonium fulfilled that old American dream of self-made success...
...campus movements. "There is no overriding issue as completely compelling as the war in Indochina," Ansara, the director of Massachusetts Fair Share, said. He added, however, the "job which we began in the sixties remains to be finished" and listed Afro-American Studies, University investments in South Africa, the antinuclear movement and course curriculum as issues that deserve for student attention...
...afternoon rally earlier in the day, George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology emeritus, predicted that student activism would surge in the next few years. "Antinuclear slogans are the graffiti of our time," Wald told the sparse crowd...
...power companies would be forced to buy still more foreign oil at prices of up to $20 a barrel, fanning inflation, weakening the dollar and tying the U.S. energy future yet more tightly to the explosive politics of the Middle East. M.I.T. Physicist Henry Kendall, a leader of the antinuclear Union of Concerned Scientists, readily concedes: "If we throw the switch and shut down all the nuclear plants next Thursday, that would represent a traumatic situation that could not be dealt with by the country...