Word: relics
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...nuclear weapons, and that Moscow no longer poses the threat to the West it once did. But buried deep inside a Virginia mountain, a vast, top-secret installation -- one of the great artifacts of the cold war -- remains at the ready. Known as Mount Weather, it is a Strangelovian relic of yesteryear intended to shelter the President and other top U.S. officials in case of nuclear war. The 33-year-old facility is manned by a second generation of doomsday planners, men and women who are reassessing their mission and that of the massive bunker they have maintained through more...
...could have been, it nonetheless marked a step away from the nuclear brink that was bolder than anyone could have predicted. Bush's initiatives implicitly recognize that a world bristling with nuclear weapons ready for instant launch is not just menacing but also outdated and irrelevant, the relic of a cold war that is over against an enemy that, as Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell puts it, "has vaporized before our eyes...
...result, the butchers of Tiananmen still have MFN today, while the struggling reformers in the Kremlin don't. The solution to this absurdity is simple: the very concept of least-favored nation, which never worked well in practice anyway, is a relic of the cold war and should be junked...
...large, the presence of gay soldiers is not a major issue within the ranks. Younger soldiers tend to view the prohibition as a relic of bygone bigotry. "People have asked me, 'How would you feel if you were in the same trench as a gay person?' " says Aric Nissen, 20, a University of Minnesota junior and political-science major enrolled in ROTC. "My response is that I feel it's one more person we could use to help us get out of the trench." Joe Steffan found that while homophobic jokes were standard fare at Annapolis, "a lot of that...
Under the corrosive influence of victimology, the principle of individual responsibility for one's own actions, once a vaunted American virtue, seems like a relic. "I have this image," says Roger Conner, executive director of Washington's liberal American Alliance for Rights & Responsibilities, "of human beings as porcupines, with rights as their quills. When the quills are activated, people can't touch each other." That touchiness, Conner adds, "is the visible fruit of the rise of self-absorbed individualism" over the past several decades. "The R word in our language is responsibility, and it has dropped from the policy dialogue...