Word: nuclearism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...main plan for U.S. aid to Russia is frighteningly modest in the eyes of Russia worriers--some extra dollars for a program to keep Russian nuclear technology and scientists from ending up in dangerous places. There is no plan for a policy to help Russia through its chaos and bring out a friendly government on the other side. "We'd love to help them do more," says an Administration official, "but Primakov's motto is 'Just don't do something; stand there...
...improve his chances, Primakov has been plucking weeds from the U.S.-Russia agenda. Last week he took steps to have the Duma ratify the long-delayed START II treaty, which will slash U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals by two-thirds. And his Nuclear Energy Minister hinted that the country might curtail some of the atomic work with Iran that prompted U.S. sanctions. The two nations have some clearly irreconcilable differences--Iraq and Kosovo, in particular. At home millions of Russians are souring on the U.S. A U.S. Information Agency poll found that 75% of Russians believe the U.S. is "using...
...find writers who brought a special expertise to their subject and could also produce graceful prose. NEIL POSTMAN for example, who wrote on TV pioneer Philo Farnsworth, is the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death, an acclaimed study of the impact of television on society. RICHARD RHODES, who profiled nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi, wrote a Pulitzer-prizewinning tome on the making of the atom bomb. Paleoanthropologist DONALD JOHANSON, who discovered the fossil called Lucy, had a long and bumpy relationship with the Leakey family and used this occasion to break a silence with Richard Leakey that lasted nearly two decades...
...think nuclear weapons add to our security or Indian security," he added...
...black comedy that perfected the form, the late Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove is more about nuclear war -- and of course bodily fluids -- than the kind we're fighting now. But take the alternate title, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, and you've got a decent description of Bill Clinton's foreign policy. No endgame? No vision? No problem. Just push the button and let those smarties fly. Kubrick found Peter Sellers in Lolita; the U.S. found let-'er-fly diplomacy in the Gulf War. And you know what? They've both served us pretty...