Word: doomsday
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...Some scientists welcomed the ban, contending that the synthetic compounds-like Freon -were destroying the earth's ozone layer, a shield against the sun's ultraviolet rays. They warned that loss of ozone could cause more cancer and perhaps alter the weather. Other scientists pooh-poohed such doomsday scenarios as unproved...
...missile-firing crew, 2nd Lieut. Christopher Cooke had little to do but wait for a day the world hopes will never come: when he and his superior would each turn two keys, one to open a box containing codes that would tell them whether higher orders to fire the doomsday weapon were valid, the other to trigger the missile's flight. Standing 24-hr, watches about twice a week in a silo 65 ft. below the Kansas crop lands, the officer led a life of unrelieved tedium. One day he thought of something else...
...hurts our troubled economy, it also begs to be used--the most harrowing possibility of all. Direct negotiations between the superpowers for arms limitation and, eventually, disarmament, and mutual attempts to reduce arms sales around the world are the only sane alternatives for a planet already too close to Doomsday...
...world resources and advanced technology. The problem is allocation of this wealth. Fuller feels current institutions prevent people from living like kings. He believes the establishment's faith in the Malthusian theory of searcity has led to wars and wasteful stockpiling of arms. Fuller tries to dispatch these doomsday beliefs so that mankind will work together. If fear of poverty is dispelled, cooperation and efficient coexistence are inevitable...
...scientists have access to their work. The ultimate safeguard: bacteria especially designed to self-destruct if they escaped the nurturing environment of the lab. Yet even without these precautions, subsequent tests showed that probably none of the doomsday scenarios could have occurred. Last year the NIH dropped most of the restrictions on gene-splicing work...