Word: doomsdays
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...June, Moscow proposed holding yet another round of discussions, this one aimed at preventing the militarization of outer space. But when the Reagan Administration quickly accepted, on the condition that the talks be broadened to include offensive weapons, Moscow in effect withdrew the invitation. The effort to limit the doomsday arsenals of both sides has been stalled ever since...
...cranky old couple in a hated marriage. Each dwells upon what he loathes in the other. Each uses any slighting statement as an excuse to stomp into another room. Each refuses to think beyond the domination of the other. The trouble is, the "marriage" involves their shared possession of doomsday power, and the home they will wreck is our world...
Scientists move up doomsday...
...doomsday clock" was created by a group of nuclear scientists to show graphically how close they believe the world is to a nuclear holocaust. Last week the monthly Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, on the advice of 47 scientists (including 18 Nobel prizewinners), set the clock forward one minute, at three minutes before midnight. That is the closest in 30 years...
...Bulletin's doomsday clock was first set at seven minutes before midnight in 1947. The clock has moved as close as two minutes before midnight (in 1953, when the Soviets detonated their first hydrogen bomb) and as far away as twelve minutes (most recently in 1972, when the U.S. and U.S.S.R. signed SALT I, the arms-limitation agreement...