Word: nuclear
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School administrators learned the symbol's devilish significance at a seminar on cults conducted last spring at the University of Houston. (The peace sign was devised by British pacifists who combined the semaphore signs for N and D, standing for nuclear disarmament.) The proposed ban has drawn some wry comments from students. Quipped a twelve-year-old: "If they ban peace symbols, they'll have to ban basic geometry because of all its lines and circles...
Like a giant nuclear-fusion furnace in the sky, the sun radiates stupendous amounts of energy. Some of it departs in the form of speeding particles, mostly electrons and protons, that form a solar wind blowing from the sun in all directions. It is this continuously flowing wind that feeds particles into the earth's Van Allen radiation belts and distorts the terrestrial magnetic field into a teardrop shape. It also sets off the frequent minor auroral displays visible at higher latitudes...
Writes Le Carre (ne David Cornwell): "I recall with particular gratitude the help of Strobe Talbott, the illustrious Washington journalist, Sovietologist and writer on nuclear defence. If there are errors in this book, they are surely not his, and there would have been many more without...
Readers of book reviews (or at least the best-seller lists) know by now that the most popular novel of the moment is John le Carre's new -- and some say best -- spy thriller The Russia House, whose typically complex plot deals with the U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms race. A subject like that, of course, requires accuracy and special attention to detail. How does Le Carre get his information about so arcane a field? Readers of the author's acknowledgments in The Russia House know the answer: Le Carre relied on a first-class expert, Strobe Talbott, TIME's Washington...
...problem is the consistent inability of SDI's designers to define its "architecture," the way it is supposed to work. Originally, there was much talk of space-age particle beams and laser weapons, until the practical difficulties of those technologies became apparent. In 1986 the fad was nuclear-generated X-ray lasers. Last year the SDI organization, fearful that Congress would further cut funding in the absence of a tangible program, pressured the Pentagon into endorsing "Phase I," a system of ground- and space-based sensors and interceptor rockets...