Word: thermonuclear
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...free men must react with consternation to the oppressive methods used by the Polish military government under orders from Moscow. The world can no longer permit the Soviets to deny essential freedoms in Eastern Europe even if the cost is thermonuclear war. Alexander P. Grantt Bonita Springs...
...implications of its actions. A strategy to bring to the forefront Soviet moderates--specifically through economic, technological and cultural exchanges, coupled with serious arms control negotiations--must begin. It is an often painful process that bears little in the way of immediate fruit. But in the shadow of a thermonuclear holocaust, courage in the face of an enemy must be tempered by a measure of humility...
...next day, TASS, the official Soviet news agency, used Reagan's remarks to exploit the swelling movement of neutralism and pacifism in Europe that is suspicious of U.S. intentions. Declared TASS: "The U.S. would like Western Europe to face all the risks of a thermonuclear catastrophe while the U.S. keeps away from...
...today's thermonuclear standards the bombs were puny and primitive, the equivalent of only 12,500 and 22,000 tons of TNT each. But in Hiroshima 140,000 people died on the day of the attack and in the weeks immediately after it. Nagasaki lost 70,000 people. Tens of thousands more were severely injured. Even today, leukemia and other ailments traceable to the radiation exposure continue to take lives...
...picture that will remain longest in most viewers' minds will doubtless be the simulation of a 15-megaton thermonuclear fireball devastating Omaha. The $87,000 worth of special effects lavished on that sequence conveyed as much vivid horror as any megabucks sci-fi movie. But it would be a pity if that memory distracted attention from other merits of the CBS News series The Defense of the United States, which aired for an hour on each of five successive nights last week. Complex issues, like that of high-technology vs. simpler weapons, usually the preserve of scholarly tomes, were...