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...handwritten message on the outside of the envelope he declared his intention to negotiate only with a member of the media, "a single person without dependents," to be specific. Inside the envelope was a more ominous warning: "As an act of sanity ban nuclear weapons or have a nice doomsday...
...Edward Danielson, 43, won the cosmic sweepstakes. Using Palomar Observatory's 200-in. telescope, they spotted Halley's comet as a faint moving dot in the constellation Canis Minor. The comet has not been seen since 1911. A year earlier, its fiery appearance caused a rash of doomsday forecasts and end-of-the-world parties...
Holocaust, doomsday-the very words are beginning to slide glibly off our minds, Friedrich fears. From war-game scenarists on down, we are all in grave danger of becoming professional waiters-for-the-end. After being a text for religious and then philosophical consternation, "the idea of the end of the world has finally become an instrument of international propaganda," Friedrich writes...
Although no board member saw either doomsday case as the most likely possibility, the TIME group believed that the international credit crisis would cause continued troubles for both the Third World and the U.S. Said Greenspan: "There will be a slowdown in lending, very considerable difficulties in developing countries to achieve their growth targets, and probably significant political problems for some countries." In the U.S., the debt troubles could mean less bank lending and slightly higher interest rates. The world banking crisis would thus be one additional trouble for an American economy struggling to pull out of a long, steep...
Kahn gave the public one of its first looks at the world of war games and doomsday scenarios, linkages of events that could trigger a nuclear catastrophe. It all read like a strange new genre: a nonfiction science fiction for an age of "value-neutral" technocrats. Predictably, traditional humanists who felt their influence slipping considered Kahn's intellectual game playing to be an amoral acceptance of mass annihilation. Kahn is, in fact, a conservative moralist. He is also a systems evangelist who puts his faith in the power of reason and works hard to appear more holistic than thou...