Word: nuclearization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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UPUNTIL about twenty-five years ago man couldn't have brought about the end of the world even if he wanted to. After we invented and then stockpiled enough nuclear weapons, it became possible, but not likely. Since then, spreading technology has made us liable to extinction unpredictably, suddenly, and by accident (with no evil will involved!). When we became liable to it, its occurrence became inevitable...
...last few years to help us all achieve revelation before It goes. The motto of the celestial forces that slipped drugs into the experience of the now and future generations is "Let Everyone See the Clear Light Before He Sees the White Light." The "white light" being that of nuclear detonation...
...back appropriations. There was a stab at denying the Pentagon $533 million to buy more C-5A air transports, a plane that so far has proved uneconomical. Questioning the need for 15 attack aircraft carriers, the critics tried to clip $377.1 million appropriated for construction of a second nuclear carrier. Finally, they tried to cut $80 million from funds allocated for construction of an advanced strategic aircraft. All the efforts were voted down...
Time Running Out. Secretary-General U Thant warned last May that the nations of the world have "perhaps ten years left" to solve their ancient quarrels and begin working together. In his annual report last week, he sounded even more pessimistic. Rather than reducing the level of nuclear arms, he charged, the major powers have assumed "the incalculable and unmanageable risks of pursuing a race which may end in disaster for all mankind." There has been "very little progress" toward peace and security, Thant said, and "time is running out." If the initial indications are accurate, Thant-and mankind-will...
...course, France's self-doubts derive from the departure of Charles de Gaulle, with his towering figure and lofty rhetoric. The general gave his people visions of glory and grandeur. He prodded them to compete on a superpower scale-as builders of rockets, proprietors of an independent nuclear force, dispensers of foreign aid, and shapers of an all-embracing world strategy. Now comes Pompidou with his promise to turn France into "Sweden, with a little more sunshine...