Word: nuclearization
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Given this myth, we now measure nuclear and thermonuclear weapons in Hiroshimas. "Thirty megatons" means nothing. Two thousand Hiroshimas-its explosive equivalent-does. We multiply mentally: the dead, the maimed, the burned, the merely (and mercifully) vaporized. The ever-growing sophistication of weapons appalls: a Bomb with the explosive force of Little Boy can now be conveniently carried in a bowling bag and left on a park bench. It is now a fortunate commonplace that nuclear war simply cannot be a rational instrument of international policy...
...higher, not 100,000 lives but perhaps as many as 100 million. Imagination may demand boldness and risk: such adventurous human gambles, perhaps, as graduated gestures of disarmament, to encourage the larger success of strategic arms limitation agreements and other rational attempts toward mutual reduction of terror among nuclear powers. Such options, for a free nation as for a free man, still remain open. Even with Hiroshima and Nagasaki burned forever in the memory, there persists the hope for new opportunities and fresh choices...
...first torment was New York City's power shortage, a constant worry since the great blackout of 1965. Predicted by the New York Public Service Commission last December, the new crisis became a fact in June. Within 24 days, Consolidated Edison not only announced that its big nuclear power plant at Indian Point would remain inoperative all summer, but also that its biggest single generator-"Big Allis," a million-kilowatt unit in Queens-had broken down and could not be repaired until December. These losses cut the utility's generating capacity by 17%. To provide new power...
...Nuclear Disappointment. Despite the crisis in the New York area last week, some industry spokesmen still insist that the nation generally has ample power. The Edison Electric Institute, a national trade association, argues that the U.S. has an average 18.2% more generating capacity than it needs to supply peak summer demand. Western states in particular have a surplus of power. But other experts are less sanguine. Speaking before the American Power Conference last April, Carl E. Bagge, vice chairman of the Federal Power Commission, bluntly informed the electric industry that it confronts a "national crisis." Said he: "Minimizing this fact...
Part of the problem lies in the fact that a bet made by the utilities in the mid-1960s did not quite pay off. At that time, nuclear energy seemed cheap, easily produced and pollution-free. Starting in 1963, utility after utility committed itself to the peaceful atom until in 1967 almost half of all new generating power ordered was nuclear...