Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...timing of the Red Dragon's nuclear detonation seemed like a gruesome version of Chinese firecrackers to celebrate Khrushchev's removal from leadership of the Red Bear...
...imprecise use of the language often made it difficult to know just where he stood, as did his offhand treatment of serious subjects. It also laid him open to misinterpretation. Is Goldwater really anxious to plunge the world into nuclear war? Of course...
...Strangelove, director Stanley Kubrick decided that the only sensible commentary on the absurdities of nuclear war was an absurd film. His light treatment of the possibility of accidental war produced a sharp political and social satire...
First, there's a conscientious and loyal air force general who has nightmares about a matador killing a bull. He's willing to do anything for his country and his President, who's a college buddy of his, and he says that nuclear war is unthinkable, that anyone who says we can survive one is crazy. In the end he blows up New York and kills himself...
...endorsement of Goldwater, though distasteful, is perhaps understandable from a leader of the state party. It is, in any case, a perfunctory endorsement, and Volpe readily repudiates the Senator's positions on civil rights, labor-management relations, nuclear responsibility, and most other issues. He fought diligently to deny Gold-water the nomination this year, and if elected, Volpe will do the same with better effect...