Word: nuke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some ways, that ominous and justifiably paranoid feeling remains in America, but for all practical purposes it has disappeared as nuclear devices--warlike and domestic--become commonplace. America's never-ending march towards technological improvement proceeds apace, so effectively that most people, excepting those sympathetic to the anti-nuke movement, think no more about nuclear power than they do about the world hunger problem...
...surprising that Bonnie is a backer of the anti-nuke movement, given her history. She's no novice on the political scene...
...anti-nuke movement has important and far-reaching implications for grassroots organizing," she says. "It can unite kids and musicians, everybody, whether they're leftist or rightist, or radical, or Republican, because energy is energy. But in fact, it is a real political sturggle--it shows people that it's big business against the people...
Particularly unsettling for those who hope to kill the breeder is the dawning understanding that the majorities that make up that guiding force are not comprised solely of members responding to special interests. Neither is it a conservative coalition. To the chagrin of anti-nuke activists, not even the breeder and its hated plutonium--much less the conventional, safer reactors--can shake up the moderates who control Congress. "We are not going to, pell-mell, rush into a 'breeder age' or 'plutonium economy' or anything else," argued classic middle-of-the-roader, Rep. John Anderson (D-Ill.) recently...
...group plans to work with other "anti-nuke" groups in the area to prepare for a second occupation of the Seabrook nuclear power plant, 30 miles north of Boston, in the spring...