Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...question now is whether Olympic judges--and other teams--will make the same adjustment, favoring artistry over perkiness. The teams from Romania and the former Soviet republics, which have posed America's stiffest challenges, are also expected to field older competitors in '96. Come 1997, they will have little choice: in that year international rules will raise the minimum age of competitors from 15 to 16, a direct result of the '92 spectacle...
...said in Washington after the Japanese surrendered that the Soviets couldn't put an atom bomb in a suitcase because they didn't know how to make a suitcase. That was true only to a point: though they had yet to learn how to manufacture decent luggage, Soviet spies had given them a blueprint for the bomb...
...counter this, LeMay actually proposed "a nuclear Sunday punch," a pre-emptive strike against the Soviets. In 1949 he wanted to send an armada of U.S. planes, carrying the entire Los Alamos stockpile--numbering more than 100 atom bombs--to destroy 70 Soviet cities. It was out of fear that a hot-headed general like LeMay might be able to launch a nuclear attack on his own that the Kennedy Administration later instituted a complex chain of commands governing the use of nuclear weapons...
...footprint (unlike the A-bomb's) could not be confined to a purely military objective. He was convinced that the development of the H-bomb would only escalate the arms race. It was in fact his dedicated opposition to the Super, claims Rhodes, and not his cursory contacts with Soviet agents, that led the Atomic Energy Commission in 1953 to strip Oppenheimer of his security clearance for "fundamental defects in his character...
...carpeted with so-called manganese nodules, potato-size chunks of manganese mixed with iron, nickel, cobalt and other useful metals. In the 1970s, Howard Hughes used the search for nodules as a cover for building the ship Glomar Explorer, which was used to salvage a sunken Soviet sub. Now several mining companies are drawing up plans to do with more up-to-date equipment what Hughes only pretended...