Word: nuclearism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Never let it be said that Janet Reno can't make up her mind. After an interminable interagency debate, the attorney general Friday indicted former Los Alamos nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee on espionage charges. What's surprising isn't the indictment - after all, we've known the story for nine months now - it's the time it took. So why did it take Reno so long to come to a decision? She was caught between the FBI, which was urging her to charge Lee with mishandling classified information and violating the Atomic Energy Act, and her own prosecutors...
...sense of flashback to the bad old days of the Cold War was underscored by President Boris Yeltsin's warning Thursday that President Clinton, in criticizing Russia's conduct in Chechnya, "must have forgotten for a moment what Russia is - it has a full arsenal of nuclear weapons." And in the ultimate d?j? vu, the Russian leader's remarks came during a visit to Beijing in order to drum up support in the face of Western pressure over Chechnya. Post-communist Russia's decline and NATO's bombing campaign over Kosovo earlier this year have cemented a fiercely anti-Western...
...course lessons get learned only one way around here, and it's not the easy way. First, you march to a dingy compound in the woods called NBC -- nuclear, biological, chemical - and you get to spend about 20 minutes flopping around in a sand pit to practice shielding your genitals from a nuclear blast...
...What the demonstrations did make clear was the extent to which President Clinton's own hands are tied domestically. Following on the heels of the nuclear test ban treaty debacle, the WTO failure may usher in an open season on the lame duck President's foreign policy. Clinton's defeat in Seattle will certainly embolden those congressional forces that had vowed to turn down the President's deal with China over WTO membership, putting at least a question mark over its passage in an election year. But what's bad for Bill Clinton may not be altogether...
...filmmakers can get away with this because of our enduring millennial uneasiness. We still can't be sure what will happen to our computer-assisted jets, nuclear power plants and electricity-supply lines at the moment '99 rolls over into '00. A flurry of bug- fixing and Y2K-readiness reports over the past year seems to have lulled most of us into a what-me-worry? coma, but it hasn't made the problem go away. There are untold millions of embedded chips and creaky old computer systems that will continue to keep track of the date in terms...