Word: nuclear
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...Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes (1987). A modern variation on the theme of stealing fire from the gods, this saga about the beginning of the nuclear age, from inspiration to detonation, is one of the great stories of the 20th or any other century, and Rhodes has told it better than anyone before...
...environment needs intensive care. The bill for nuclear-waste disposal stands at $50 billion; for clean water, $24 billion; for hazardous wastes, $15 billion...
...American agent? Hardly. An American-style politician? Definitely -- the kind the U.S. increasingly lacks. Snowing the West has been easy for Gorbachev. Like Woody Allen's chameleon character Zelig, Gorbachev has adopted many of the West's favorite buzz words: stability, reasonable sufficiency, mutual security, the unwinnability of nuclear war, interdependence, human values, a civil society, the fate of the earth, the endangered planet. He has also shown that he knows what these words mean and that he means them himself when he uses them...
...from under the big top of American diplomacy. All of a sudden, the think tanks and back rooms of the policymaking establishment are filled with a new kind of head scratching. Some who have spent their careers fretting about the end of the world (the big bang of nuclear Armageddon) are suddenly lamenting "the end of history"; now that the good guys have won and the Manichaean struggle is over, humanity will have nothing but a lot of boring technical and local problems to deal with. It is a silly idea but a telling one, for it underscores the dilemma...