Word: public
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...earth lung cancer for so goes the estimate of Dr. Helen Caldicott, author of Nuclear Madness and an anti-nuclear activist). One-millionth of a gram of plutonium constitutes a carcinogen dose. That's just one of the dangers when reactors operate "safely." Since at Three Mile Island, the public has learned that far more dangerous accidents will happen, and the anti-nuclear movement has been swelling...
...pendulum of public concern about national and foreign policy is swinging back after the doldrums of the post-Vietnam era. Heightened worries about diminishing resources, about inflation and unemployment, and about relations between the United States and the Soviet Union have prompted a reassessment of American spending priorities...
...issues which will be generating public controversy in coming months are the fiscal 1980 defense budget and the imminent SALT II agreements, both of which Congress will be voting on. Unfortunately, much of the public awareness about the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks and the defense budget is based on faulty information and misinterpretation. Seven myths are prevalent in the current debate...
...Carter Administration has requested a defense authorization for fiscal year 1980 of $135.5 billion. Some contend that military spending has declined because it is a lesser percent of three indices commonly used in government presentations: as a percent of the federal budget, of gross national product and of net public spending...
THIS CHAOTIC approach has plagued those outside the government as well. As the authors note, "What has been lacking is a coherent alternative to the unchanging stance of the Pentagon. Public concern with military matters has been confined to individual weapons or foreign bases or bizarre instances of waste. The B-1 bomber becomes a cause, while the cruise missile gets built. The neutron bomb grabs the public attention, while outmoded long-range bombers are deployed. "The broad links from major military forces to policy goals, on the one hand, and to alternative levels of military spending, on the other...