Word: nuclearism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviets have been accelerating their acceptance of such verification procedures since the 1987 INF treaty, which eliminated intermediate- and short-range nuclear missiles, set up procedures for monitoring their destruction. Soviet inspectors have been present in the U.S. during the demolition of 326 missiles, and Americans have witnessed the destruction of 1,088 Soviet missiles. More than two dozen Americans stationed permanently in Votkinsk, west of the Urals, keep tabs on a plant that once built SS-20 missiles, and a similar number of Soviets in Magna, Utah, monitor what was formerly a Pershing engine plant. Michael Krepon, a Washington...
...such weapon spotted later would be in obvious violation. START will be far more complex. It will only reduce the numbers of various missiles, and inspectors will have to determine how many small cruise missiles are carried aboard bombers and possibly even submarines. Differentiation must be made between nuclear-tipped and conventionally armed cruise missiles, even if they look alike. A method will have to be found to keep track of mobile missiles. With all that, the supreme challenge will be how to prevent new production of banned weapons at secret locations...
...said the test was even more severe than the April 1986 explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant that killed 31 people, cost millions of dollars to clean up and sparked a nationwide environmental protection movement...
...which will emerge in great numbers from the electron-positron collisions. The discovery of the Z 0 and two related particles, W+ and W-, in 1982 and 1983 won a Nobel for CERN scientists Rubbia and Simon van der Meer. The three particles carry the weak nuclear force, one of the four fundamental forces of nature, which is responsible for radioactive decay...
...possible that the makers of James Bond have got it right, and the only things left for the superspy to tackle are society's unsolved problems. But then again, maybe the late '80s and the early '60s are more alike than we want to believe. The specter of nuclear annhiliation is just as real today as it was 25 years ago, if not more so. Maybe there's still room for a James Bond who grapples with the really big problems in the world...