Word: thermonuclear
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sure, and all of society must take part in that effort. But we cannot operate any sort of society if we have no basic confidence in our system. Instead, if the majority of any state supports the use of a weapon more forbidding and dangerous than any thermonuclear device, it ought to be allowed to wield that weapon. It must, however, exercise the utmost caution in the use of that weapon so that the rampant tide of current events, the Curleys and Woodwards, does not unduly influence the pulling of the trigger...
...page transcript paints a frightening picture of how clearly America's top officials could visualize an all-out thermonuclear exchange ? or, as they euphemistically put it, "general war." Sample extract: "There's bound to be a reprisal from the Soviet Union," says Kennedy. "Going in and taking Berlin by force. Which leaves me only one alternative, which is to fire nuclear weapons, which is a hell of an alternative...
...think hurricanes and tornadoes are powerful, take a look at the sun's periodic storms. Kicking up twisting arcs of fiery gases, solar eruptions from that great thermonuclear reactor in the sky can stretch as far as the distance from Earth to the moon. The most intense outbursts explode a billion tons of material off the sun's searing (11,000[degrees]F) surface at speeds of millions of miles an hour. If these electrically charged particles happen to slam against Earth's atmosphere, they can imperil astronauts, push satellites out of orbit or fry their circuitry. If they...
...BRADBURY, 88, top physicist and for 25 years the head of the Los Alamos National Laboratory weapons-research center; in Los Alamos, N.M. A veteran of the Manhattan Project, where he helped assemble the first atom bomb, he built Los Alamos into a formidable facility that developed the first thermonuclear weapons...
...year-olds. Without a Vietnam War, the new generation is less polarized. "Young people today are not as struck by life's fragility," says John Gardner, head of the National Resource Center for the Freshman Year Experience at the University of South Carolina. "They're not thinking about thermonuclear Armageddon...