Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...matters of Middle East politics is a fervent supporter of Israel: "The French government has taken upon itself, with a recklessness not shared by any other nuclear power, including the Soviet Union or the People's Republic of China, responsibility for giving Iraq the nuclear bomb...
...letter to the London Times, whipped up a controversy that has been simmering ever since Paris let it be known in 1976 that it would deliver a nuclear-power research facility to Iraq. The big question: Is France selling technology that could be used to produce an atomic bomb? The French, of course, say no, as do the Iraqis. But the Israelis, who would be most directly threatened, insist that Iraq could accumulate enough expertise and enriched uranium to make several nuclear weapons by the mid-1980s. Jerusalem has mounted a campaign to alert Western Europe...
...everyone in France has unquestioning faith in the country's nuclear deterrent, La force de frappe. Restaurateur Philippe Deur, 24, has converted the 17th century stone cellar of his establishment, Chéz Gregory, in Arcey not far from the Swiss border, into a bomb shelter that even the Guide Michelin might approve. Behind a 1½-ton steel and reinforced concrete door and enclosed within 4 ft.-thick walls, the room is equipped with a hand-cranked ventilator that sucks in outside air and could filter out radioactive dust. Most evenings, the fare includes steaks, omelets and salads...
...reason to have raised the Titanic, except that it sure looks mighty fine steaming into New York Harbor? "It's just as well," Robards says when the byzanium turns out to be quarry gravel. "Someday, someone would have put this to offensive use. They would have built a byzanium bomb." Why then, he is asked, did he spend five years looking for the stuff? "If anyone was going to do it, I wanted it to be us," Robards said. This movie, had it been made in time, might have supplanted Patton as Richard Nixon's favorite flick...
FICTION: Consenting Adults or the Duchess Will Be Furious, Peter De Vries ∙ Doctor Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party, Graham Greene Joshua Then and Now, Mordecai Richler ∙ Rough Strife, Lynne Sharon Schwartz ∙ The Magic Labyrinth, Philip José Farmer ∙ The Second Coming, Walker Percy ∙ The Transit of Venus, Shirley Hazzard