Word: thermonuclear
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...TELEVISION MOVIE The Day After took a little more than five minutes to deal with the clash of troops, tanks, and tactical nuclear weapons in a European conflict. For the other two-hours and 55 minutess (including commercials), 70 million Americans viewed Kansas both before and after a general thermonuclear attack. You may recall the scenario: political upheaval in East Germany; Warsaw Pact siege of West Berlin; attack of NATO tank forces to relieve the beleaguered city; counterattack; NATO use of small nuclear weapons against an overwhelming Pact advance; holocaust...
Sagan, the David Duncan Professor of Physical Science at Cornell, emphasized the "absolutely devastating" climatic effects on earth after a thermonuclear...
Peanuts. Or so says a desperate, despairing physician in The Day After. Even Hiroshima was peanuts compared with the irrevocable thermonuclear slaughter visited on Kansas City and its environs. Lawrence. Sedalia. Green Ridge. They have all been devastated. But this is not some horrible, local nuclear accident. This is worldwide atomic warfare. The missiles have been launched, the bombs have gone off. The global village has been nuked...
...long string passage now stirs images of the world's end. The reason for the change is that the sage has been caught up in the nuclear arms debate: "Words like disaster and catastrophe are too frivolous for the events that would inevitably follow a war with thermonuclear weapons... The preparations go on, the dreamlike rituals are rehearsed, and the whole earth is being set up as an altar for a burnt offering...
...aggressive act from Cuba would be treated by the U.S. as an attack by the Soviet Union itself. And the U.S. would retaliate against Russia with the sudden and full force of its thermonuclear might...