Word: bombs
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...NEXT ISSUE of The Progressive magazine could be a threat to world peace, according to the U.S. government, which obtained a temporary restraining order last month preventing publication of a Progressive article on the workings of a hydrogen bomb. But the only peace the article threatens is the peace of mind of America's nuclear establishment...
...government claims that Howard Morland, the article's author, has discovered the secret of the H-bomb, and some commentators have suggested that publication of Morland's piece could give the H-bomb to Idi Amin and other ruffians of the Third World...
...attempts to shut down a balking reactor can no longer contend that the chances of serious accident are so tiny as to be totally discounted. The radiation released was well below the Government's standards for safety, but cancer rates among people exposed to fallout from the atomic-bomb tests of the 1950s and shipyard workers who repair atom-powered vessels raise troubling questions about the long-run effects of supposedly "safe" radiation...
...possibility of a pardon for Nixon a week before the President resigned. Further, Ford writes, "I did ask Haig about the extent of a President's pardon power." But after being warned by Aide John Marsh that the mention of a pardon in this context was "a time bomb," Ford later read Haig a statement: "I want you to understand that I have no intention of recommending what the President should do about resigning or not resigning and that nothing we talked about yesterday afternoon should be given any consideration in whatever decision the President may wish to make...
...Russia," Gaddafi answered, "and I'd like to take care of them." Obviously unwilling to give the fiery Libyan a chance to arouse religious feelings among the Soviet Union's 50 million Muslims, the Kremlin leaders shelved the notion. The Muslims of the U.S.S.R. constitute a demographic time bomb for Moscow; by the year 2000 there will be 100 million of them, compared with an estimated 150 million Russians. Already party leaders in the Muslim republics of Central Asia are displaying political muscle by pressing for high-priority development projects...