Word: planet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sautee mankind; that is, they add, unless we do the job first. An all-out nuclear war, most rational observers contend, might well make the species extinct and would certainly end modern civilization. Now in that 500,000,000 years--longer than man has already been on this planet--many thousand ideologies will rise; many nations and races win power and lose it; and, one hopes, much progress toward true justice be made. Our goal, then, must be justice and freedom in our lifetime, but only if it is possible without courting the nuclear disaster which would end all chance...
...nuclear peace cannot be assured by the super- powers alone (though they are the only ones with arsenals large enough to wipe out the planet). Disarmament must extend to the other nations with nuclear capabilities, and the U.S. and Russia must use every economic, diplomatic and political pressure to insure that these nations too disarm...
...Stompers and Planet Street--Jonathan Swift...
...entire novel is written in this language--mystifying but intelligible--and soon we learn why: the story takes place thousands of years in the future. The planet has been transformed, legend has it by a "flash of lite bigger nor the woal worl and it ternt the nite to day." The legend takes on an unsettling reality when we read that the "flash" was brought on by one "Littl Shynin Man the Addom...
More drastic still is the imminent dismantling of Project Galileo, a $500 million enterprise that would place an unmanned spacecraft in orbit around Jupiter and drop a probe directly into the giant planet's atmosphere. More than $200 million has already been spent, including several million dollars by the West Germans...