Word: nuclearization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kept the peace since 1945. The cold war was also a cold peace: now in its 45th year, the era that historian John Lewis Gaddis calls the "long peace" is surpassing the stable stretches imposed by Metternich and then Bismarck in the 19th century. One reason is that nuclear weapons made localized wars and territorial disputes too dangerous to allow. They also made a direct confrontation between East and West or a Soviet invasion of Central Europe unthinkable...
...years the nation's nuclear weaponry has provided enough security to allow Americans to sleep better at night. But there is now chilling evidence that the custodians of the nation's atomic arsenal have all the while also kept their eyes closed -- not in sleep but in egregious disregard for safety. Drawing on three years of investigations, the oversight subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee last week disclosed patterns of sloppy operation, arrogant indifference and willful deception in the management of the country's 17 major nuclear-weapons facilities. The result of years of mismanagement plus the estimated...
Coming even as the Justice Department is pursuing a criminal investigation of practices at the Rocky Flats, Colo., nuclear-weapons plant, the report sketched a variety of lapses. Many were not disclosed, said Democratic Representative John D. Dingell of Michigan, committee and subcommittee chairman, because of "obsessive secrecy." Among them...
...same time, momentous accidents have reminded citizens that commonplace industrial activities have vast destructive power when companies are careless. The deadly chemical accident in Bhopal, India, groundwater contamination at Colorado's Rocky Flats nuclear-weapons plant and the oil slick from the Exxon Valdez all suggest that safety is too low a corporate priority. "That's why there was such a sense of outrage over the Valdez," Johnson argues. "The consequences of mistakes are just so much greater today...
...insisted that unprecedented U.S. inspections of Soviet nuclear weaponry -- to test techniques for monitoring Moscow's compliance with the proposed START accord -- take place even before any such treaty is completed. Secretary of State James Baker defended the proposal, contending that an early understanding on verification might make an arms-reduction pact with the Soviets easier to sell to Congress...