Word: antinuclear
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...Virginia Republican, supported the continuation of testing. Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts declared that the Administration was "squandering one of the best opportunities in many years to achieve a comprehensive test-ban treaty." At the Nevada test site, almost 100 protesters from Greenpeace, the international environmental and antinuclear organization, were arrested in the course of the week. Whatever else the detonation may have accomplished, it demonstrated to Gorbachev that the U.S. is not prepared to concede anything on the testing issue...
...Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to an antinuclear organization founded by a Harvard professor and a Soviet doctor. The Nobel Committee in Oslo, Norway announced that the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, a worldwide consortium of doctors committed to banning nuclear weapons, won the gold medal and its $225,000 cash prize...
...party has lost much of that self-assurance, as voters have become disillusioned by the country's lagging economy and by suspicions that the government of President Francois Mitterrand has been trying to cover up its involvement in the July sabotage sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, flagship of the antinuclear Greenpeace movement. Opinion polls show that the voters are turning away from the Socialists to the conservative opposition parties. To many political observers, it now appears more than likely that the party will go down to defeat in legislative elections next March, which could force Mitterrand, whose term runs until...
...full-scale nuclear war between the superpowers would block the sun's rays for weeks, causing the earth's temperature to plummet. The mystery of his disappearance has been compounded by the suspicions of some Western scientists that the nuclear winter scenario was promoted by Moscow to give antinuclear groups in the U.S. and Europe some fresh ammunition against America's arms buildup. Conspiracy theorists speculate that Alexandrov was planning to renounce the nuclear winter concept and may have been kidnaped by the KGB. According to another theory, the physicist defected to the West. In any case, a delegation...
...moment, the report notes, some of the missiles can be easily seen through cyclone fencing, making them a magnet for antinuclear demonstrators and a target for terrorists. (The weapons' nuclear warheads are housed separately in concrete bunkers with special security precautions.) The Army wants the money for "metal and concrete fences, which are intended to shield the day-to-day activities of the Pershing unit from outside observation." The proposal is finding a receptive audience in Congress. "No problem at all," said Republican Senator Mack Mattingly of Georgia, chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee on military construction. "In fact...