Word: doomsdayers
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...threat of nuclear war is unworthy of examination as that no one has had anything new to say about it since Dr. Strangelove; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Just look at the details: Colonel Jack D. Ripper, the good doctor, the Soviet doomsday machine. Not only did Kubrick do nuclear armageddon first, he did it right, eschewing white-knuckled sentimental despair for ballsy black comedy--and unlike Kopit's play, Kubrick delivers on his premise with the end of the world...
Every time it happens it seems a bit like the beginning of doomsday. And it happened again at 6 p.m. last Sunday: an alarm shrilled, lights flashed in the control room. A monitor was signaling that the water cooling the plutonium- producing N reactor at Hanford, Wash., had dropped below acceptable levels. Shutdown...
...consolidated their dreads, reposing them (if that is the word) in the Bomb, in the one overriding horror of nuclear holocaust. A fat and prosperous West is lounging next door to its great kaboom. It is both smug and edgy at the same time. Now comes another agent of doomsday, this one actually killing people and doubling the number of its victims every ten months as if to reverse the logic of Thomas Malthus. The prospect of nuclear holocaust may be terrible, but the mind takes certain perverse psychological comforts from it. It has not happened, for one thing...
...would change the world forever. Farmer, for one, has thought through endless contingencies, including the nightmare of losing contact with Washington during a presumed attack. Says he: "I would not launch without authorization, period." By the same token, he does not flinch from the thought of carrying out his doomsday role. Says he: "If a captain is not prepared to execute, there is no deterrence...
...Kampelman of the U.S. and Victor Karpov of the Soviet Union take their seats at a table in Geneva next week, they will be marking the end of a superpower standoff that has lasted for 15 uneasy months. The possessors of the world's two mightiest arsenals of doomsday weapons will once again be formally seeking agreement on ways to control their destructive power. No miracles are expected: nuclear negotiations over the past 22 years have occasionally resulted in limits on future stockpiles, but never in deep reductions of current ones. Yet the U.S. is convinced that the new round...