Word: nuclearization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moderate Republican, Thornburgh, 56, was respected as chief of the department's criminal division under Gerald Ford. He won election to two terms as Pennsylvania Governor, earning a reputation for steadiness in his handling of the 1979 nuclear-power-plant crisis at Three Mile Island. Asked what he would do if required to review the ethics of his predecessor, Thornburgh replied that he would "follow the evidence wherever it may lead...
...Black Sea this year, no one will be able to say he has not earned it. In the past seven weeks alone, the Soviet leader has played host to a superpower summit meeting with Ronald Reagan, climaxed by the signing of the first treaty eliminating an entire category of nuclear weapons; improved relations with religious leaders during ceremonies observing the millennium of Christianity in Russia; and presided over what may be remembered as a historic Communist Party conference that endorsed his plan for political and economic perestroika (restructuring). Last week Gorbachev turned his attention to Eastern Europe, paying his first...
...blots out the realities of baggage deprivation and child-size seats like Tom Clancy, the minstrel of the military-industrial complex. Clancy's first thriller was a nuclear submarine epic, The Hunt for Red October, which was followed by another sturdy heavyweight, Red Storm Rising. He stumbled last year with Patriot Games, a frippery in which his customary hero, the supercool CIA man Jack Ryan, saved a British royal child from kidnaping. The problem was not that Patriot Games was silly, but that it was even sillier than real life...
...more westerly in longitude it was than anyone might have imagined -- anyone, they must have meant, who had never met an Atlanta booster. Then, if there was a lull in the conversation, they would sometimes say, "You know, Atlanta is the fourth target on the Kremlin's map of nuclear destruction...
...usually found myself stuck for a reply. It was difficult enough to conjure up the picture of Soviet generals -- hefty, beetle-browed men in bulky overcoats -- leaning over a map while the Air Marshal for Nuclear War Contingency Planning says, "Then we'll get Atlanta and take out all the Southeastern branch offices in one swoop." Even if that were the Russians' plan, how would Atlanta people know about it? A Chamber of Commerce mole in the Kremlin? Even if they knew about it, why would they boast about it? Who wants to be up toward the front...