Word: fallout
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...effect of this looniness is to drive you to the fallout shelter. The message is bleak--there is no hope for society, it is hopelessly insane, skewed. The medium is numbing--the director, Alex Cox, has spliced together a series of disjointed scenes into a rambling stream-of-consciousness denunciation of American society. The utter weirdness of society, the hopelessness of it all is insistently driven home to us in scene after scene, whether we're watching Otto shovel down his dinner from a can marked simply "Food," or watching Otto's punk friend Duke die after a shoot...
...under way for six years. The three previous tests failed for various mechanical reasons. According to the spokesmen, the point of the experiment is to prove that incoming missiles can be destroyed well before they reach their targets without resorting to defensive nuclear explosions. Some scientists believe that radioactive fallout from such interceptions would be minimal, since the target warheads would be demolished without exploding. The Army insisted that Homing Overlay was "completely and absolutely compliant" with the 1972 anti-ballistic missile (ABM) treaty between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. that banned the deployment of defensive missile systems while allowing...
...complained that it left the Soviet Union with too many of its existing weapons; critics on the left complained that it permitted both sides to develop too many new weapons. But most of all, SALT II was a victim of "linkage," the susceptibility of the arms-control process to fallout from adverse events in other areas. The debate over Senate ratification was approaching its climax when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in December 1979, just as the leader
...fallout has started, so has the industry infighting. Byte Ad Sales Manager Peter Huestis sent out hundreds of letters proclaiming that Lydon's Personal Computing had failed to meet its promised circulation increases. Lydon rebutted that Byte had "gone berserk...
...Marshallese, however, the story became much more complicated. Despite obvious signs of nuclear fallout confirmed by the experience of the Japanese, the people of the Bikini atoll were not evacuated from the area. Afterwards the leaders of more than 10 atolls petitioned the United Nations Trusteeship Council requesting that...