Word: nuclearism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Oliver Wendell Holmes once famously described Franklin Roosevelt as a man possessed of a second-rate intellect but a first-rate temperament. In the years since, America has elected brilliant men and charming ones, wonks, rogues, rascals, a general, an actor, a nuclear engineer, in a rolling judgment about knowledge and wisdom, instinct and style. At times it seems that the murkier the issues, the sharper the matter of character becomes...
...among those with the most widely owned stocks in creation. Virtually every institution holds Microsoft stock, including those that manage your retirement accounts. Fidelity Investments has 149 million shares spread among 60 funds. If the bottom ever falls out of this baby, look out. The collateral damage will be nuclear, especially now that Microsoft is part of the Dow Jones industrial average...
...military's role after the Cold War has largely shifted from protecting America from a nuclear-equipped superpower to maintaining stability in the region that superpower once dominated, the Pentagon's budget has been slashed by a third, while American troops have been increasingly devoted to peacekeeping efforts. This trend has many inside the Beltway, mostly Republicans, arguing that a powerful military has symbolic importance for America's diplomatic and economic legitimacy, as well as for world peace. But a New York Times/CBS News poll released Wednesday showed that only 2 percent of American voters considered defense the "single most...
...wanted to talk or even think about them. For years leading U.S. biologists were assuring themselves and the public that bioweapons don't work and aren't anything to worry about. It was a naive dream from the childhood of biology. The physicists lost their innocence when the first nuclear bomb went off in 1945. The biologists will lose their innocence when the first biological weapon spreads through the human species...
...20th century lived with the nuclear bomb, and there was great economic and scientific progress and much human happiness. The same can be true in the next century. Our tools for defending against new diseases are improving all the time. Vaccines are getting better. Drugs to fight bugs are advancing. And new devices are coming that will identify an infectious agent in seconds...