Word: doomsdayers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to the Administration scenario, the President and key advisers would prepare to be whisked aboard the "doomsday plane," a 747 specially fitted to serve as the nation's Emergency Airborne Command Post. Meanwhile, citizens would pack their cars with food, water, clothes, tools and important papers (Social Security card, credit cards and a will), city dwellers would head out into the countryside to take shelter in predesignated buildings. Those unable to leave would be herded into public fallout shelters. Two weeks later, survivors would come out and begin to rebuild society, guided by plans for food rationing, banking...
Reinstituting the draft would do more to diminish the danger of nuclear war than the MX supermissile and B-1 bomber programs combined. No one else dares to say it. I understand, of course, that risking a nuclear doomsday is preferable to losing the votes of the 18-year-olds...
...part of death's meaning is to be found in the fact that it occurs in a biological and social world that survives." Were that world to perish, it would be "the second death"-the death of the species, not just of the earth's population on doomsday, but of countless unborn generations. They would be spared literal death but would nonetheless be victims-in his view the most important victims-of a nuclear...
...chances for passage in the House look good, the outcome in the Senate is uncertain. Though the resolution is purely symbolic, its passage would surely embarrass, if not hamper, the Administration in any arms-control negotiations. Meanwhile, as Administration hawks scramble to defuse the measure, a grassroots campaign against doomsday weapons picked up more support last week. Maine's legislature became the eighth to request a moratorium on the spread of nuclear arms...
MORE DISTURBING to many is the fear France has "Finlandized" itself by creating a dependence on the Soviet Union for energy. Doomsday scenarios pervaded French publications of the last two weeks. One, in L'Express, entitled "Suddenly in the Summer of 1986," saw the Soviets entering East Germany to crush a popular anti-communist uprising. In retaliation the alliance--miraculously united--boycotts all trade with the U.S.S.R. The latter then curtails the flow of natural gas to Western Europe, whose economies suffer crippling bolws. One can easily fill in the rest of the apocalypse...