Word: nuclearization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Massachussetts will see a struggle over the future of its nuclear power from now until November 8, when voters will decide whether to shut down all of the commonwealth's nuclear reactors...
Thus, according to Kennan's original criteria, there perhaps can, finally, be an "appeal to common purposes" in Soviet-American relations beyond the elemental one of mutual survival. Until now, avoiding nuclear war has been the only common purpose on which the superpowers could continually agree. That is why arms control has been such a central element in superpower relations. Attempts to reconcile the deeper political disputes over the relationship between the individual and the state -- or between the Soviet state and the rest of the world -- have always failed. For example, in 1972 the superpowers signed a "code...
...commercial break (two minutes), it will be easy for the candidates to appear in command merely by adopting confident tones in the first and last sentences of their answers. Listen instead to the middle sentences of each answer. It will be particularly telling if Dukakis consistently stumbles in articulating nuclear strategy or if Bush fails to explain what he has been doing for a living these past eight years. Deduct 3 points for every answer that sounds like a Marx Brothers routine...
...Government announcement struck some as a bit strident. John Cooper, environmental-safety manager for the Illinois department of nuclear safety, suggested that the EPA had acted rashly. Like the uranium-rich rock formation stretching across Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York called the Reading Prong, he contended, geological deposits in Wisconsin and elsewhere in the Midwest cause pockets of radon with high readings in very small areas, and these misleadingly boost a state's average. Said Cooper: "It's not imperative that people go out and monitor their homes right now, and the EPA should have made that clear...
Doty, an expert on the social and ethical issues of nuclear war who worked on the Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bomb, was not available for comment...