Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...battleships. With their 20 deadly accurate five-inchers and nine 16-in. guns-twice as big as any still active in the Navy-they can rain 2,400-lb. projectiles at the rate of 27 a minute on coastal targets 25 miles away. In an age of nuclear weapons, such firepower seemed puny a decade ago when the last of the mighty battlewagons, the 45,000-ton Wisconsin, left the Navy. Last week the Defense Department allocated $800,000 for preliminary de-mothballing of the New Jersey, one of the nation's four remaining inactive battleships, in order...
...more ambiguous." A case in point is her recent i AM A PACIFIST but . . . WAR-pictures are too BEAUTIFUL, which deals with "the contrast of beauty and destruction, a hidden commentary on war and pacifism." Inscribed within the work, together with tiny, exquisite maps of battle plans and bifurcated nuclear mushrooms, are passages, in German, from letters Mary wrote to her mother in 1943 and 1944. One telling example of modern history's ambiguity is the air-raid instructions one letter repeats from German posters: "Put all lights out. Light means your death [Licht dein Tod]" Yet, as Mary...
Focusing on a handful of ordinary citizens in Kent, this 47-minute film begins with coolly British preparations for a conventional war-rational rationing, orderly evacuation to the safe suburbs. Abruptly, a nuclear bomb explodes off-camera. The screen whitens with the flash, then rumbles with the shock wave. The sound, intones an off-screen narrator, is "like an enormous door slamming in hell." Children with seared eyes grope for help, fires rage incessantly, food riots begin. The police execute looters-and then turn on the hopelessly ill, shooting them down like horses as they writhe outside the hospital that...
...Hiroshima, Dresden and other cities devastated during World War II. Sometimes, though, Watkins' passion for peace leads him into moments of maudlin melodramatics. At film's end, the sound track unconvincingly takes the press and television to task for supposedly refusing to discuss the possibilities of nuclear war, and asks: "Is there a real hope to be found in this silence?" And one scene of nuclear holocaust is accompanied by the strains of Silent Night, ludicrously amplifying a potential tragedy that certainly needs no enlargement...
...along. It is a developing thing and, of itself, is revolutionary. And, as such, it particularly fits our time." He noted how early 19th century scientists thought that Newtonian mechanics explained everything, how early 20th century scientists saw quantum mechanics as all-encompassing, how the ever unraveling discoveries of nuclear physics forever destroyed absolutes in science. "Science," he said, "is like one of those old English country houses which is never finished, is continually being added...