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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tourism were expected to augment the national coffers. But in the matter of budget and expense vs. value rendered, the Windsors, who are monarchs not only for a nation but for the international media, found themselves up against a conventional show-business maxim: It is only when you bomb out that you're a profligate; if you're a hit, nobody cares how much your show cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magic in the Daylight | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

Engineering extravaganzas are nothing new to Taylor. As a nuclear scientist at Los Alamos, N. Mex., in the 1950s, he designed the largest fission bomb that had ever been exploded. In the 1960s he worked on the U.S. Air Force's Project Orion, an aborted fission-powered spaceship that was supposed to explore the solar system. For now, Taylor is happy with his melting ice mound. Says he: "Standing on that pile of ice is pure adventure. We are developing the first renewable-energy cooling system that is competitive with electrical air conditioning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iceberg Cool | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

...seen as being overly sympathetic to the Europeans, despite their reluctance to commit sufficient funds to beef up NATO. At the State Department, Weinberger is regarded as clumsy and even downright crude in his approach to military issues that have diplomatic overtones, such as deployment of the neutron bomb and the upgrading of Theater Nuclear Forces in Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Troubles with a Prickly Ally | 7/27/1981 | See Source »

...know if I felt it or heard it give. I stepped back and could see the middle going down." Hospital Administrator Tom Edgarton was in a restaurant just off one of the lobby mezzanines. Looking out toward the atrium, he saw "debris just pouring up like a bomb had gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Night the Sky Bridges Fell | 7/27/1981 | See Source »

...least the statement showed that President Reagan was increasingly concerned about the stark problem of more and more nations getting their hands on the bomb, or on the materials and expertise to make one if they so desired. As recently as January 1980, Reagan said that nuclear proliferation abroad was not "any of our business." There is no such attitude in the Administration today. Among the new guidelines are 1) continued support for the 1968 international nuclear nonproliferation treaty (N.P.T.) that prohibits the development of atomic weapons by the signatories; 2) a commitment to forge other international agreements to combat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy: Trying to Stop the Nukes | 7/27/1981 | See Source »

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