Word: bombs
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...years to come. There is also widespread worry that atomic weapons will be fashioned from plutonium obtained from nuclear-energy plants. Says Pierre Strohl of the OECD's Nuclear Energy Agency: "Peaceful application of nuclear energy seems to be inseparable from the nightmarish images of the atomic bomb." Many people, especially the young, regard the nuclear reactor as a symbol of a "hopelessly technocratic, centralized, hierarchical society implacably destructive of natural resources and human values." As a consequence, says Strohl, the debate is degenerating into sterile confrontation between dogmatic opponents and intransigent defenders of the atom...
...bomb that ever burst...
...supposed to be, "they had to storm the fortresses" for many of their weapons, Nelson says. He adds that the bravery "was the kind you can only visualize in the Hollywood movies." Hitler sent German tank and aircraft divisions which technologically outdistanced the republican forces, enabling the fascists to bomb Guernica, Madrid and other large population centers in republican control...
...with a brief Spanish precede, by Latino contributors. There are personality pieces on Cuban-born Dancer Fernando Bujones, numero uno at the American Ballet Theater, Rodeo Star Leo Camarillo, Spanish-born Fashion Designer Fernando Sanchez, Miami Newscaster Emilio Milian, who continues to speak out against Cuban terrorists despite a bomb attack that blew off both his legs, and Archbishop Roberto Sanchez of Santa Fe, N.M., the highest-ranking Latino prelate in the U.S. Regular features include fiction or poetry, a gallery of art or photography, a food and crafts column, and a cross-the-country regional news report...
...tiny quantities, is searingly radioactive and ranks with botulin toxin as one of the world's most poisonous substances. Moreover, with as little as 12 Ibs. of plutonium, the right equipment and expertise in handling the stuff, almost any government-or terrorist outfit-could make a nuclear bomb...