Word: nuke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with advances like its ULMS longer-range submarine-launched missile system, which involves at least ten advanced subs with 24 missiles each. Both sides are expected to spend heavily on observation satellites to detect any cheating by the other. They can also spend heavily, if they wish, on new nuke-carrying bombers. As both nations continue to spar for technical advantages, no immediate savings in weapons costs are expected...
...Midland (pop. 35,000), the Dow Chemical Co.-the city's biggest employer-announced that it intends to move one of its small chemical plants to the Gulf Coast, where electrical power is still relatively abundant and cheap. Many Midlanders jumped to the obvious conclusion that if the nukes were not quickly completed and placed in operation, Dow might shut down more of its Midland-based operations. Fearing for their jobs, they bought a full page ad in a local newspaper attacking environmentalist critics, who have questioned several aspects of the nuke. The ad's headline: "Will...
...investor-owned electric utility, has another problem. Its new Indian Point No. 2 nuclear power plant on the Hudson River 35 miles upstream from New York City is almost ready to ease the metropolitan area's growing power shortage. The company has urged the AEC to allow the nuke to begin operating almost immediately, adding that it will later install whatever new environmental safeguards might be required...
...will wreak ecological havoc on the Hudson and decimate its fish population. They say that the company's first nuclear facility, Indian Point No. 1, has been killing striped bass, perch and other species since 1963. According to the Hudson River Fishermen's Association, the nuke was directly responsible for the death of between 310,000 and 475,000 fish in a six-week period last year alone...
...pathologist (David Wayne) are assigned to the microscopic object which consumes plastic and turns blood to powder. One American has already been annihilated; now the Andromeda strain seems bent on total destruction. The Thing multiplies by some unknown process. At great-too great-length, the brains decide to nuke it to death. But wait! They suddenly realize their folly. Split atoms are what make the Thing thrive. It eats them for breakfast. The countdown begins. Can the stalwart defuse the bomb in time? The clock eats up seconds...