Word: safe
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Albert Wohlstetter of the University of Chicago, an articulate defender of Safeguard, disagrees. All these things are within U.S. capabilities, he argues, and to be safe, the U.S. must assume that anything it can do the Soviet Union can eventually do too. Wohlstetter questions Rathjens' conclusion that, at worst, "a quarter of our Minuteman force could be expected to survive a Soviet pre-emptive S59 attack." Wohlstetter complains that Rathjens overestimates by two-thirds the blast resistance of U.S. silos and unjustifiably assumes that the Soviet multiple warheads would carry only one-megaton payloads. "Where scientists differ," he concedes...
...soluble in fats and highly susceptible to "biological magnification" as it makes its way up the food chain. A typical case of this kind of metabolic mayhem occurred in Long Island Sound. After some mosquito-infested marshes were sprayed, the DDT was found in the nearby water in a "safe" concentration of .000003 parts per million. Nonetheless, the DDT quickly accumulated in more concentrated form...
Many Cape Kennedy engineers bring home the fail-safe attitudes necessary to their work. "These are intelligent, perfectionist males who are usually intolerant of the feelings of those around them," says Psychiatrist Burton Podnos, administrator of the local Mental Health Center. Absorbed all day in scientific precision, engineers are apt to accuse their wives of sloppy housekeeping if they find an unwashed coffee cup in the sink. It is hard for some of them to understand why there is not an effective system for toilet-training the baby...
...building which meets those standards can be accepted for use in the city. It is an inclusive rather than exclusive code. It is my feeling that we must be inclusive in an effort to explore every avenue that will drive down the cost of housing or expand the safe possible alternatives for increasing our housing stock...
...Versailles in 1919, the victorious Allied leaders assembled to make the world "safe for democracy." They succeeded only in making it safer for tyranny. The tragic peacemaking efforts of Georges Clemenceau, Lloyd George and Woodrow Wilson are an oft-told story. Yet their means and ends have rarely been presented in so finely detailed and lucid a book as this. The work is all the more remarkable because it was written by a 38-year-old part-time historian who doubles as an executive of a floor-materials company in Elizabeth, N.J. His only previous book: Dare Call It Treason...