Word: cataclysm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worry was that I would trip, or that I would be stunned by some unexpected, spontaneous cataclysm inside...
...cause (a moment of incompetent political espionage) did not seem commensurate with the effect (the resignation of the President), not in the usual Newtonian laws of action and reaction. Watergate was more like an event in quantum physics. A particle of history as minuscule as an atom produced a cataclysm...
...work if put to the test of reality. Many fear that the detonation of even one nuclear weapon in a conflict would be like firing a particle into the nucleus of an atom; nuclear war would mimic nuclear fission. The result would be a chain reaction of chaos and cataclysm, warheads flying back and forth with increasing recklessness and ultimately random, total destruction...
...Soviet Union in nuclear arms will the West ever convince the Soviets to participate in meaningful arms negotiations. The current surge of concern over the danger of nuclear war is laudable, but the facile, emotionally based recommendations it has generated would only increase the chances of nuclear cataclysm should they be put into practice. Mark A. Sauter...
...many an "ardship." The most chilling pun has to do with the central myth of Riddley's time, an adaptation of the only document left from before the flash, the Christian legend of St. Eustace. In "the Eusa story," Eusa tampers with "the Littl Shyning Man" and creates the cataclysm. Eusa: remind you of any country in a pre-cataclysmic relationship with the atom...