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...thermonuclear weapons were generally tested in the open air, and that was subjecting everybody downwind from them to the danger of fallout,” he said. “And when I say downwind I mean high altitude winds that carry the cloud clear around the globe several times...
...election] made us a much more cohesive body, because we all came together and voted to downplay the events and to move on,” he says. “What happened is an awkward cloud that still hangs over us, but we choose not to acknowledge...
...even though regret does have its purpose, it is important not to dwell on it. Spending too much time thinking of the could-haves, would-haves, should-haves can cloud the real progress one has made. Overall, I, along with the vast majority of my classmates, am proud of the time I have spent here, enamored with the friends I have made, and warmed by the memories of Harvard I will always carry. But I don’t feel guilty for harboring a few regrets, because there is a lot to learn from them. And I think Adam Wheeler...
...haven't had a chance to watch Johnny Bowman's Presidential Address, here's a transcribed copy [with some brief thoughts]. If you thought campus events were the focus of Bowman's address, confirm your suspicions with a word cloud of the UC president's speech...
Barack Obama grew up long after the 1950s air-raid drills that sent students scurrying under their desks, but the mushroom cloud was never far from his imagination. He wrote his senior thesis on nuclear arms reduction and quoted reggae star Peter Tosh in an essay about the "flowering of the nuclear Freeze movement" for a student magazine. Now that onetime activist possesses the power to summon the world. At the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, he gathered representatives of 47 nations (including 38 heads of state) for the largest diplomatic event convened by a U.S. President since 1945. Obama...