Word: nuclearization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...missiles have flown, the earth's depopulated land masses are glowing like one big Chernobyl, and the 305 hands aboard the U.S.S. Nathan James, a destroyer that has survived the holocaust, find themselves alone in the vasty deep. But wait. Lurking beneath the waves is a Soviet nuclear submarine that has also escaped harm. Will the two vessels 1) blast each other with their remaining missiles, 2) join forces to begin civilization anew or 3) spend 600- odd pages stalking each other while they try to decide...
...them on board, the ship's narrator-captain treats them fairly, admires their sailorly skills and forgets to his peril that they are, after all, women. An austere career man identified only as Tom or the Captain, he leads the mixed crew bravely through mutiny, internecine murder and nuclear winter, until at last he confronts the cunning of Lieut. Girard, the ship's ranking female. "She carried that greatest of all handicaps that may befall a woman," Tom laments before falling for her. "She was simply too bright for most men of this world...
...foreign policy, Gorbachev praised the Reagan Administration for its commitment to the intermediate-range nuclear-forces treaty, but spoke out sharply against U.S. "ultra-rightists" who sought to undermine the accord. He also lashed out at those Western "imperialists" who oppose the Soviet Union because "they fear a revival of the attractive force of socialist ideas." Such words reflected the deep-seated distrust that often seems to color the Soviet leader's view of the West...
Though it is essential for the U.S. to cultivate domestic energy sources and know-how, current spending is excessive. The research-and-developme nt budgets for nuclear fission and fossil fuels could be cut by two-thirds. In addition, the U.S. should reduce funding for rural electrification and remove subsidies on the sale of federally generated power...
...East Germany's normally stolid Neues Deutschland, it was a rare scoop. The Communist Party daily reported last week that Soviet troops were preparing to dismantle the first of 54 SS-12 nuclear missiles in East Germany that are scheduled to be scrapped under the U.S.-Soviet intermediate-range nuclear forces treaty. The move came as the accord continued to meet stiff opposition during a U.S. Senate debate over its ratification...