Word: prenuclear
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...author, who has written books on the Luftwaffe and the firebombing of Dresden, reveals strange priorities of indignation. "The war in the air," he writes, "reached a climax in prenuclear barbarism as over 40,000 civilians were burned, blasted, or poisoned to death in Hamburg." Irving does not raise his voice in quite that way when confronting the systematic liquidation of 6 million European Jews...
...earlier, prenuclear times, American...
...greatest increase in radioactivity is in tea. In prenuclear days, tea was virtually radiation-free. Now its radioactivity has gone up an average of 30-fold, and in some samples more than 100-fold. As expected, teas from South America and Africa show the least increase (the whole Southern Hemisphere has markedly less fallout than the Northern). Teas from China, Formosa and Japan may easily reflect mainly the fallout from Soviet bomb tests. Those from India and Ceylon can apparently only reflect the pooled fallout from Siberia, the Pacific islands and Nevada, which has gone around the world. Two reasons...
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