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Dates: during 1986-1986
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...shadow of Chernobyl affects much more than the future of nuclear power. It also raises questions about Western Europe's defense. The disaster has increased doubts about anything having to do with atomic technology; this threatens to create more rifts between the U.S. and its European allies, particularly about the installation of nuclear weapons. Says a senior West German official: "The political scale of Chernobyl is equal to the force of the accident itself. We know that people equate the threat of nuclear accidents with the disastrous potential of nuclear weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy and Now, the Political Fallout | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev tried to make a similar link May 14 in a speech on Chernobyl. He called the destructive power of nuclear weapons far greater than the impact of the atomic plant accident and urged the U.S. to agree to a ban on nuclear-bomb testing. Gorbachev's message seems to be influencing European public opinion. Said one NATO official: "Gorbachev has scored another public relations coup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy and Now, the Political Fallout | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

...political fallout from Chernobyl has descended most heavily upon West Germany. "No other country has gone quite as crazy as we have," says one government expert. The nuclear controversy is dramatically shifting West Germany's political agenda and deepening the problems of Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who will face voters next January in a general election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy and Now, the Political Fallout | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

...favor more nuclear plants. The rival Social Democrats, who in the elections will be headed by Johannes Rau, the minister-president of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, want to phase out existing facilities "as soon as is feasible." The ecology- minded Greens have been gaining in strength since Chernobyl, and their demand that the nation's 20 commercial atomic plants be immediately closed seems attuned to the mood of the country; a recent survey found that 69% of those questioned oppose further nuclear expansion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy and Now, the Political Fallout | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

Chancellor Kohl, who has been the subject of a three-month corruption investigation that was dropped last week for lack of evidence, looks < politically weaker now than at any other time since he assumed power in 1982. Polls taken since Chernobyl show the Social Democrats consistently leading his Christian Democrats. The opposition, moreover, has been able to dictate the campaign theme for upcoming elections. Its battle cry is Ausstieg! (phased "withdrawal" from nuclear energy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy and Now, the Political Fallout | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

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