Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB by Richard Rhodes. The best account to date about the ideas, politics and people responsible for the nuclear age -- to say nothing of the Age of Anxiety...
...part of a group of American observers who stood in the rubble of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Nitze contemplated the implications of the atom bomb for the postwar world. His conclusion: once the Soviets got their own bomb, they might use it as an instrument of political intimidation and perhaps of war; to deter Soviet aggression, the U.S. would have to build up its own conventional and nuclear military strength. That has been the nub of his message to his countrymen ever since...
...ride to alert America that the Russians are coming. NSC-68 predicted that by 1954 the Soviets would have enough nuclear- armed bombers to "seriously damage this country" by striking "swiftly and with stealth." These were more than just words to Nitze. At his Maryland farm there is a bomb shelter, which for years he kept stocked with emergency provisions...
Reagan introduced Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb and visionary of Star Wars, to Gorbachev, whose response was so minimal that Reagan thought he had not heard the name. "This is the famous Dr. Teller," said the President. "There are many Dr. Tellers," replied Gorbachev coolly, seemingly haunted by his dissident H-bomb scientist Andrei Sakharov...
Your presidential campaign, however, is one big bomb...