Word: nuclearism
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...classroom, the students shrug and look away, dragging on their cigarettes. The look on their face is not of shock or horror, but a numb roll of the eyes, as if they've already begun to see the shooting as some sort of campus ritual, akin to the nuclear-attack drills of the 1950s. Asked why he thought students were resorting to gun violence again and again, Michael Woods, a friend of Cheek's, says, "Kids like T.J. are seeing it and hearing about it all the time now. It's like the new way out for them...
Back when I was in school, the surreal fear hovering above our heads was about the atom bomb. Our duck-and-cover drills were designed to protect us, somehow, from the Big One. Nowadays, we drill our kids on what to do if a classmate goes nuclear. It's an unlikely scenario, just as the Bomb was. But when you eavesdrop on kids these days, there's the painful possibility you'll hear them speculating on who in their class might be most likely to play Doom for real. The shootings at Columbine, Conyers and elsewhere remind us that...
...weapons originally sent from Washington going to spark a full-scale war between the world's newest nuclear nations? "No, both sides are determined to avoid a war," says Rahman. "Instead we're looking at a long counterinsurgency as the Indian army comes under political pressure to retake the territory seized by the infiltrators." In other words, just business as usual in Kashmir. A surer indication that dispute will remain local: Even as their armed forces trade fire in the disputed province, both countries vowed Friday that the conflict wouldn't jeopardize their ongoing involvement in the cricket world...
...show weakness in relation to the other. So New Delhi is now bound to up the ante after Pakistan Thursday downed an Indian MiG-27 and claimed to have also hit an Indian MiG-21 that had crashed in the Kashmir border region. The two nuclear-armed states are once again jostling at the brink of full-blown war in Kashmir after India Wednesday began bombing some 600 Pakistan-backed guerrillas who had crossed into its territory...
...this scale could not have been undertaken without active Pakistani military involvement. Thursday's shoot-down is taken by India as further proof of Pakistani complicity. The countries have fought two of their three wars in the past five decades over Kashmir. But now that they're armed with nuclear weapons, leaders on both sides face the complex challenge of retaliating ever more forcefully while avoiding an actual...