Word: nuclearism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hehir played a crucial role in drafting the 1983 Catholic Bishop's Statement on Nuclear Weapons, which advocated eventual nuclear disarmament, and was awarded a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" for his work on the document...
...straight back to boiling point Tuesday after Indian jets shot down a Pakistani reconnaissance aircraft along a disputed coastal border. India and Pakistan both claim the plane was in their air space, and each side rushed to produce scraps of debris Wednesday to prove their point. While both newly nuclear states vowed, through gritted teeth, to avoid escalation into full-scale hostilities, both sides have placed their military forces on full alert. Pakistan admitted firing a missile at Indian aircraft Wednesday, but said the target was Indian jets rather than the journalists? helicopters...
Even with management support, employees can be squeamish about offsites. The corporate retreat from hell was memorialized on an episode of The Simpsons, in which Homer and the other workers at Springfield's nuclear-power plant head up snow-covered Mount Useful in pairs, competing to be first to reach a cabin at the top. The boss cheats, the employees just want free sandwiches, and an avalanche sabotages the whole thing. In the real world, climbing a mountain or learning to handle a kayak with someone you've barely met or, even worse, someone you see at the office every...
...Since 1994, offers of energy and food assistance by the U.S. and its allies had succeeded in curbing North Korea?s nuclear program and its missile exports, but strong warnings against the latest planned test -- and military maneuvers by its regional enemies -- may goad Pyongyang into pressing the button. "By making so much of it we may have turned this missile firing into a test of North Korean manhood," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "Being more discreet may give Pyongyang more of a way out." Which may be why, despite the threats of harsh economic retaliation, Washington is arguing...
...determined to tame the river. The plans included two major dams, at Serre-de-la-Fare and Chambonchard, and two smaller ones. The stated aim was to prevent flooding, expand irrigation and boost water flow during dry years. Opponents suspected other motives: increasing the water supply to cool four nuclear reactors along the river and boosting development in areas now subject to flooding...