Word: tensely
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SAFEGUARDS. One of the byproducts of nuclear plants is plutonium, the critical ingredient in nuclear weapons. Several critics led by Theodore Taylor, a onetime atom-bomb designer for the AEC, fear that terrorists may steal the material. An amount the size of a softball, Taylor says, could be used to...
When Lee Sanne Buchanan met her newly adopted Vietnamese baby boy at the Denver airport in 1968, she joined one of the most exclusive parents' groups in the U.S. Though tens of thousands of South Vietnamese children became orphans that year, fewer than a dozen found homes in the...
Because there were literally tens of millions of potential plaintiffs, the defendant drug companies hoped that the courts would turn their backs on the whole morass on the ground that it was "unmanageable." But they did not reckon with Judge Lord, a former Minnesota attorney general who is the latest...
The arrest and deportation of Alexander Solzhenitsyn should not surprise the world, as it is a logical outgrowth of the greatest assault ever mounted on the human spirit, which began under Lenin and did not cease with the death of Stalin. What should surprise us is the fact that while...
Over the past three years, however, Nixon has from time to time expressed ethical and practical reservations about MAD. In his foreign policy message to Congress last May, for example, the President declared that deterrence based on the ability to kill tens of millions of Soviet citizens was "inconsistent with...