Word: nuclearism
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During 4 1/2 years in office, Shevardnadze did all that and more. His legacy is a world in which the decades-old fear of nuclear war between the two superpowers has almost vanished and East-West hostility is moving toward cooperation...
...southern Africa, Central America and Southeast Asia. Negotiations that had been stalled for years or decades , suddenly bore fruit: intermediate-range missiles had already been abolished in 1987, but a treaty mandating major reductions in conventional forces in Europe was signed last month; and the START pact cutting strategic nuclear forces is to be signed in February...
...makes sense for him to pay higher gas and sales taxes. Farmers would quickly look for alternatives to chemical pesticides if they were taxed according to the cost of cleaning them out of the environment. Regulations are most useful as a last resort for dealing with problems, such as nuclear waste, that are too dangerous to be left to the marketplace...
...Persian Gulf crisis. During the final Rose Garden ceremony on an unseasonably warm December afternoon, President Bush announced that he would travel to Moscow in mid-February for a fourth summit with Gorbachev, with the hope of signing a START treaty reducing the superpowers' arsenals of long-range nuclear weapons...
Scientists will point out that almost every one of the program's premises is subject to debate, from its assumption that life must be based on carbon (rather than, say, silicon) to its noticeable bias against nuclear energy. The program also assumes that technology always advances and that intelligence always confers an evolutionary advantage. "We may be flattering ourselves," says the program's designer, Will Wright...