Word: holocaust
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...deliberately impressive array of speakers--a Nobel laureate in medicine, a retired admiral (defector from the military-industrial establishment), two pioneers in the development of nuclear weapons, researchers of Hiroshima and of the nuclear tests in Utah, the top names at Harvard Medical School--viewed the possibility of nuclear holocaust from a variety of traditionally antithetical perspectives...
...speakers did not relish depicting the gruesome scenario; as psychiatrist Robert J. Lifton noted, "It's painful-we're filling our heads with images of annihilation." But they persevered, often eloquently, because they were crusading for a universally vital cause-the prevention of a nuclear holocaust...
...Sunday morning, pointing to a U.S. map with little black dots denoting likely Soviet targets-concentrated, of course, on the Northern Atlantic seaboard-the speaker seemed as confident about the prospect of a nuclear holocaust as other preachers are about the Second Coming. "Our government is arming and preparing for nuclear war," said Gene Lagque, retired rear admiral, adding that military men operate on the premise that war will come...
December 31: Nuclear holocaust spreads. Life on earth reduced to french fries and cockroaches...
...there is a nuclear holocaust. What will it do? I shall tell you what it will do. It will cleanse the world...