Word: postnuclear
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...slips from superpower status, some folks in the Pentagon must be dying to yell "We won!" GENERAL MERRILL MCPEAK came close. Visiting Moscow recently, the Air Force Chief of Staff addressed several hundred top Soviet air force officers, who were hoping to hear his thoughts on adjusting . to the postnuclear era. Instead, McPeak spent much of his time describing the brilliant performance of the U.S. Air Force in the gulf war before musing, "In war, defeat is a better instructor than victory." O.K., so far. But then he added, "This is probably a Russian saying...
...capturing nature's true spirit. In one of Kurosawa's most magically told tales, a child is forced to confront his hidden feelings about his family's carelessness in cutting down a peach orchard. It prefigures two later dreams (rather conventionally apocalyptic, alas), about an atomic accident and about postnuclear life, in which the human family heedlessly destroys its entire world...