Word: nuke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...radioactive pollution from a huge nuclear power plant in Monticello, Minn., conservationists have filed a lawsuit against state agencies and Northern States Power Co. to bar the plant's operations. Result: the Minneapolis-St. Paul area has to borrow power from neighboring utilities. In Kalamazoo, Mich., another nuke is stalled pending consideration of the ecological effects of the plant's discharge of hot water into Lake Michigan. Until pollution-free fuels or new generating techniques can create energy without contaminating the environment, such conflicts are likely to spread across the nation...
...President Nixon, on the advice of his psychiatrist, resists Pentagon pressure to nuke Cleveland, Boston, and New York, strongholds where the enemy troops have been able to gather because all our forces were off resolving a grassfire war between Chile and Laos...