Word: nuclearism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gradually, though, she earned her colleagues' respect. For several months she labored in relative obscurity, doing legwork on stories that rarely made it on the air ("They called me queen of the stakeouts"). Her big chance came after the Three Mile Island nuclear accident. She broadcast live reports from the damaged reactor -- borrowing a producer's tennis shoes so she could stand atop the microwave truck in the rain without slipping off -- and got her first major exposure on the CBS Evening News. After a stint covering the 1980 presidential campaign, she was assigned to the State Department, where...
...proposed reductions in conventional forces in Europe. Thousands of armored vehicles and artillery pieces will have to be destroyed by NATO and the Warsaw Pact, and hundreds of thousands of troops demobilized or redeployed. The treaty language must precisely define differences between aircraft capable of carrying either conventional or nuclear warheads. Under previous verification standards, that task would be hopeless: satellite photography and electronic sensors are not sophisticated enough to count warheads on a missile or peer inside production plants...
DARK CIRCLE (PBS, Aug. 8, 10 p.m. on most stations). This documentary on nuclear power was set to air on PBS in 1986 but was scuttled because of its antinuclear bias. Now it turns up on P.O.V., the special summer series...
...Former Nevada Senator Chic Hecht, 60, who has been nominated as Ambassador to the Bahamas, was more noted for his malapropisms than for any legislative accomplishment during his single term on Capitol Hill. Hecht once declared that he opposed a "nuclear-waste suppository" in his state. In his list of qualifications, he noted that the "life-style of the Bahamas is similar to the life-style of Las Vegas...
...there agreement on the strategic justification for the bomber. Cheney argues that the Stealth is needed to maintain "the effectiveness of the bomber leg of the strategic triad," the mix of land- and sea-based missiles and nuclear weapons carried by aircraft on which U.S. deterrence has been based. Welch contends that bombers are regarded by both the U.S. and the Soviets as "the most stabilizing element of the triad." Unlike missiles that can strike in 30 minutes or less, bombers need hours to reach their targets and hence do not represent a first-strike threat against the Soviets. Moreover...