Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...since it has to decide whether to approve a license to export 12,261 kg. of Government-owned enriched uranium to fuel a reactor in India. In 1974 Indian scientists used fissionable materials, taken from a Canadian reactor, to build what they called a "peaceful nuclear device." After the bomb was exploded, Canada shut off nuclear aid to India. To keep the U.S. from following suit, the Indian government pledged to use American materials exclusively in its civilian reactors. The Natural Resources Defense Council, a U.S. environmental-law group, worried nonetheless about India's capacity to create more...
...nuclear policy, confusions that the NRC cannot resolve alone. The commission will probably approve the uranium sale-on the condition that India sends the fuel's "ashes" back to the U.S. after it has been used. That would remove the temptation to transmute the spent uranium into bomb-quality material. But it would also have the unpleasant effect of making the U.S. responsible for India's radioactive wastes. Nor would such a decision establish the guidelines that are sorely needed on which nations, and under what circumstances, the U.S. and its companies should sell reactors and fuel...
...insensitivity to the GOP establishment, that, while only mildly harmful then, would prove fatal to his political life four years later. He roamed around the world with little on his mind but fallout radiation (Nehru would remark later, "...a very strange man...all he wants to talk about is bomb shelters"), an issue which carried the implication that Eisenhower had been soft with the Russians. He entered the campaign an outsider and left a bad loser--in his final declaration of non-candidacy, Rockefeller avoided endorsing the only serious candidate left in the field, Richard Nixon. In the minds...
...lunch, Mondale called our waitress by her first name. His naturalness plus the arrangement of the small tables gave the room a homey kitchen atmosphere, though a portion of the back wall was missing. Sipping soup from his spoon, Mondale explained: "...a bomb went off in the john." What I took as a joke, it turned out later, was actually true...
Buffalo Bill and the Indians. After seeing his bomb, it's not difficult to see why Dino de Laurentis pulled Altman off the Ragtime project. Altman is best at presenting little stories, but he has this awful tendency to cast himself as the grand philosophe. In Buffalo Bill, the oracle has come down from the mountain to tell us that we have lied to ourselves about our history and that we mistreated the Indians. How interesting. At the Cheri III, in Boston...