Word: nuking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...definitive layman's guide to nuclear-related issues. Bok had announced his intention to use Harvard's resources in this effort during his June 10 Commencement address. Largely at Bok's behest, the Kennedy School of Government has already begun a program to brief journlists on the nuances of nuke-talk...
...definitive layman's guide to nuclear-related issues. Bok had announced his intention to use Harvard's resources in this effort during his June 10 Commencement address. Largely at Bok's behest, the Kennedy School of Government has already begun a program to brief journalists on the nuances of nuke-talk...
...officers to think more clearly about the costs and benefits of battlefield strategies. As one retired officer puts it: "You don't learn about these weapons on the rifle range." Certainly participants learned some pointed lessons at Livermore. One was the tendency of even veteran officers to "go nuke" indiscriminately. "If they were caught out of position, they would try to retrieve the battle with nuclear weapons," says Janus Director Donald Blumenthal, a retired Army colonel working at the California weapons-research laboratory. One officer who let his position deteriorate beyond recovery reached into his megaton arsenal, picked...
Last week about 150 students and 20 faculty members from the Medical School and the School of Public Health joined the anti-nuke crusade, journeying to Washington to lobby members of Congress on behalf of a freeze and reduction in U.S. and Soviet nuclear weaponry...
John Kennedy told France's Charles de Gaulle that the U.S. would nuke the Soviet Union if it ever attacked Europe. De Gaulle never believed him, and indeed Kennedy wept one day when contemplating a possible confrontation with the Soviets over Berlin. Jimmy Carter sat straight-backed in his chair in the Oval Office a couple of years ago and insisted that he could order a nuclear attack. None of his listeners thought he could...