Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Earlier in the week, U.S. officials made known their concern over Italy's sale to Iraq of equipment that might be used in the development of an atomic bomb. Again, something seemed amiss. It turned out that the U.S. had been aware of the sale since 1978, and that the item, a lead-shielded cubicle known as a "hot cell," is standard equipment in most nuclear laboratories. Officials in Rome speculated that word about American displeasure with the deal had been leaked at this time because Italian support for the tough U.S. position on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...
...Moon," develops this line of thinking still further. Lunch has fused a smooth, swinging piece reminiscent of Duke Ellington's prime with a completely separate bit of raunch straight out of Teenage Jesus. She makes it all work by brilliantly counterpointing the two. The two factions alternate between dive-bomb runs and frenetic soloing. They both compete for our affections, and we are propelled by the sheer audacity and exuberance...
...After U.S. diplomats spent months trying to persuade NATO members in Europe to accept the neutron bomb, Carter suddenly canceled production of the weapon...
...package containing specifications for the construction of a hydrogen bomb has just been delivered to the White House, together with a cassette-recorded message from Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi. With rising horror, the mansion's current resident, a decent but untested Southerner, listens to the ultimatum on the tape: If the U.S. does not make Israel withdraw from the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem within 36 hours, a nuclear device concealed in New York City will be detonated by satellite command...
...scene, of course, is fiction. No portable nuclear bomb awaited triggering; President Gaddafi, for all his Israelophobia, had taped no such doomsday threat. Yet for thousands of French readers the scenario seems icily plausible. The Fifth Horseman is France's hottest bestseller this winter only four weeks after publication. (The book will be published in the U.S. by Simon & Schuster in July.) Co-Authors Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre (Is Paris Burning?, O Jerusalem) have so convincingly interwoven fact and fiction that the details of civilization's vulnerability to nuclear blackmail appear totally realistic...