Word: firestorms
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...summer's firestorm, which has finally tapered off in recent weeks, provided Hub firefighters with some memorable nights on the job. On Friday night, August 13, only four buildings were torched--a total of $100,000 in damage, but a total of 32 alarms went off around town, and firemen used every available piece of equipment, including the city's sole fire boat. Charlestown's Engine 50 spent one Saturday night rushing to multiple-alarmers, first two miles to South Boston, then four miles from there to Jamaica Plain, then finally back to Charles town. As for the arson investigators...
...nuclear bombs preside, in a dark, speculative way, over the human imagination of war. Nuclear is to conventional war what the monotheism of the avenging God was to the old amiably human and relatively harmless idolatries of polytheism. The wrath of God becomes the dread mushroom and megadeath and firestorm-totality, cessation. It is not relative, like the old wars, but absolute, the utter blank of extinction. Nuclear war sits in the mind like the lurid medieval vision of hell: horrible-and yet, well, hypothetical...
Coming in the context of increasingly strained American relations with the Soviet Union, the Administration's statements and decisions have fueled a firestorm of protest in Europe against what many there see as the clear and present danger of nuclear war on the Continent. While ostensibly aimed at both superpowers, the political agitation in Western Europe has a distinctly anti-American, naively neutralist, even pacifist flavor. Worries about Reagan's finger on the nuclear trigger have also affected politicians who otherwise are in favor of the alliance and are by no means anti-American. Even so staunch a U.S. friend...
None megaton nuclear bomb explodes over downtown Boston. The vast destructive force of the blast levels every building in the city. Huge amounts of deadly radioactive fallout cascade from the explosion. Boston is engulfed in a raging firestorm. Everyone within four miles of the blast--everyone in Cambridge, Everett, Dorchester. Watertown--is killed istantly. Ninety percent of the survivors elsewhere require immediate attention for severe burns. But because most hospitals have been destroyed an most health workers are dead, each person must wait in agony for 26 days to be seen by a physician for just five minutes. Epidemic diseases...
...musty corners of the Capitol, Republican leaders now say among themselves that Ronald Reagan has about three months to demonstrate the worthiness of his economic program before a political firestorm engulfs his presidency...