Word: nuclearism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...smirk may be a manifestation of an inner lightness that protects Bush from feeling inadequate. He seems undisturbed that he has no opinion on Boris Yeltsin's chosen successor, but "will if I'm President"; that he doesn't know much about controlling nuclear arms but will hire people "who know a heck of a lot more about the subject than I do"; or that he spouts gobbledygook ("It is not only the life of the unborn...it is the life of the living...
...professional politician, but heads of state and the world's leading politicians paid attention to his words. Sakharov was an instrumental member of the team that created the [Soviet] hydrogen bomb, but he was also one of the first people to realize the danger posed to humanity by nuclear weapons. Moved by his conscience and his ethical convictions, academician Sakharov dared to publicly challenge the all-powerful machine of the totalitarian state. In the hardest years of the Soviet system, he was not afraid to raise his voice in defense of the oppressed and persecuted. He helped many...
BORN May 21, 1921 1948-53 Develops first Soviet H-bomb 1957-74 Speaks against dangers of nuclear testing 1975 Wins Nobel Prize for Peace 1980 Banished to Gorky for his protests 1986 Exile ended 1989 Dies in Moscow...
...this former adversary. The International Monetary Fund has given Russia billions of dollars in loans but failed to create a stable economy. The U.S. Senate has resolved to create an ICBM protective shield once it becomes technologically feasible. Such a shield would allow the United States to launch a nuclear strike with impunity, a prospect that is understandably frightening to the Russians, not to mention Dartboard...
...West would do well to mend its relations with Russia, not only because Dartboard does not want to enter the next century with a nuclear cloud hanging over our heads. It would truly be a tragedy if America won the first Cold War only to enter another a decade later. The second time, the West might...