Word: nuking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...based on a weapon's destructive effects: how many millions would be killed, cities destroyed, regions contaminated. There is no way a President could succumb to reflexive nuclear revenge, even if he is surrounded by old cronies who, after a couple of bourbons, suggest it is time to "nuke 'em." From the man who carries "the football," the briefcase containing the launch codes, to the officers who push the buttons, a President must deal with an impersonal and coldly rational chain of command. A comforting irony is that military leaders are not the Strangelovian warriors imagined by many...
Sponsored by six national anti-nuke groups, the last seven days featured numerous speeches, films, and "teach-ins" at colleges, high schools, and elementary schools...
...they were written, tree systems are organized by subject matter. This encourages topic-oriented discussions on anything from college tuitions to Middle East policy. Users start at the "trunk," a list of subjects for debate (NEIGHBORHOOD-POWER, NUCLEAR-ARMS), and climb "branches" of subsidiary messages (GIVE-PEACE-A-CHANCE, NUKE-EM-ALL). As subsequent callers add their own opinions, the trees can grow into dense thickets of give and take. In Santa Cruz, Calif., a conference called START-A-RELIGION began with a manifesto that declared, "Religion is too important to be left to the churches or to the profiteers...
...fact, when they are lined up nuke for nuke beside the vast arsenals held by both the U.S. and the Soviet Union, the British and French missiles do not seem worth counting. France's force de frappe consists of five nuclear-powered submarines, each equipped with 16 single-warhead missiles, and 18 land-based missiles. Their range: no more than 1,800 miles, barely enough to reach Moscow. Britain relies on four nuclear submarines, each armed with 16 Polaris missiles. Says former French Ambassador to NATO François de Rose: "The number we have now is immaterial compared...
...coke market," ventures George Schiavone, a fashion photographer familiar with the cocaine scene in Miami, "is the same as the nuke-freeze market. You're not talking about just 'druggies.' You're talking about all walks of life." One former Oregon physician, disastrously addicted for five years, knows how the groovy group solidarity fades...