Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...against nuclear testing, both in the U.S. and overseas. Environmentalists and peace groups demonstrated in front of the White House, in Alaska and in Canada. More than 30 Senators led by Massachusetts Republican Edward Brooke sent an eleventh-hour telegram to President Nixon urging him to call off the blast. The Japanese government registered official reservations over the explosion and the possibility of a tsunami, or tidal wave, hitting the Japanese islands...
...Canada, opposition swelled to a feverish anti-American pitch. Canadian newspapers were filled with articles and cartoons denouncing the Amchitka blast. A bitter parliamentary debate caused the State Department and White House to assure the Canadians that their objections had been considered. Demonstrators closed major bridges connecting Canada and Michigan for several hours. U.S. consulates were stoned. Five American-owned companies closed down operations following threats of terrorist bombings of U.S. firms...
Necessary Precedence. They were wrong. Environmentalists set up an outcry that such a massive explosion, five times as powerful as the previous Amchitka blast in 1969, might trigger an earthquake or, in case of a blowout, contaminate the area with radioactive fallout. Committees were formed, suits were filed, studies were conducted by Government agencies. Politicians, diplomats and strategists were consulted...
...given to the President by environmental and other Government agencies. A Washington-based group called the Committee for Nuclear Responsibility has asked a court to enjoin the tests on the grounds that the AEC had not filed an adequate environmental-impact statement as required by law, and that the blast would damage the environment...
...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 the shores of the Beaufort Sea, within the boundaries of the nation...