Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...October of 1945, George Orwell wrote a prescient essay entitled "You and the Atom Bomb" which may hint at an answer. After mentioning that revolutionary activity has usually occurred in periods when the dominant weapon was a simple one, he wrote. "Had [nuclear weapons been cheap and easy to produce] the whole trend of history would have been, bruptly altered. The distinction between great status and small states would have been wiped out, and the power of the State over the individual would have been greatly weakened...Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades...
...Boston Globe. There is as little reason to doubt his motives as there is reason to doubt that nuclear weapons will be with us until they end our world. But arguing that society should not tolerate nuclear arms is, in effect, arguing that physics should be uninvented. The fusion bomb is non-returnable...
...Soviet Union had wanted to ban all atomic weapons, and the U.S. had refused. Right, answered Reagan; that was when the Soviets did not have the bomb. But when Bernard Baruch proposed an international tribunal to govern nuclear weapons, it was the Soviets who balked...
...June, 1973, President Bok's Committee on the Practice of the Arts dropped a bomb-shell on a long-standing Harvard tradition. In its "Statement of policy," the six-professor committee wrote...
...similar public warning had been made before the latest bomb attack-a fact that made especially feeble Ronald Reagan's attempt to blame the lapse in security on cutbacks in CIA operations before he took office. Although there was a steady reduction in intelligence operations through the mid-1970s, President Carter began beefing up the agency's budget...