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Word: antinuclear (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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After Greenpeace protesters forced the cancellation of a test-firing of the Trident 2 missile last July by hanging an antinuclear banner on the communications mast of an American submarine, the Navy vowed that it would never again be similarly embarrassed. Last week, when the U.S.S. Tennessee launched a Trident 50 miles off Cape Canaveral, Fla., the protesters discovered how determined the Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Navy: Butt Out, Greenpeace | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

...doubt the scientific value of the Galileo flight. Nonetheless, a sharp controversy has dogged the mission. At issue is the space probe's power source: two radioisotope thermoelectric generators that are fueled by almost 50 lbs. of highly radioactive plutonium 238. Antinuclear groups, led by the Florida Coalition for Peace and Justice and the Washington-based Christic Institute, have claimed that the generators are unsafe. Their view is shared by Richard Cuddihy, an analyst with the Inhalation Toxicology Research Center in Albuquerque and the lone dissenter on the federal interagency panel that recommended a go-ahead for the Galileo program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Nuclear Fears About Galileo | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

DARK CIRCLE (PBS, Aug. 8, 10 p.m. on most stations). This documentary on nuclear power was set to air on PBS in 1986 but was scuttled because of its antinuclear bias. Now it turns up on P.O.V., the special summer series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Jul. 31, 1989 | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

...sending a message out across the country that the antinuclear resistance is rededicating opposition to Seabrook Station and we're calling upon the movement across the country to recognize the dangers that are represented at every nuclear power plant," Paul Gunter of the organizing Clamshell Alliance said, leaning out of one bus after his arrest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Protestors Rally at Seabrook | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

...opponent, Stephen Comley, hired an airplane pulling an antinuclear banner to fly by President Bush's vacation residents in Kennebunkport, about 40 miles up the Maine coast. Bush was spending the weekend there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Protestors Rally at Seabrook | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

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