Word: nuclearization
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...report on the vast network of conservation commissions in Massachusetts and to protest the possibility of a jetport near Florida's Everglades; they mourned, with TIME, the passing of the golden-cheeked warbler and shuddered at the arrival of the African snail. Other stories on the dangers of nuclear power, overdevelopment in Vermont, noise pollution in big cities, how to abolish billboards, antipollution suits in Illinois drew wide comment. Many readers simply expressed an opinion, as did former Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, that "TIME'S concern over the environment's deterioration gives us fresh hope that this...
Shared Judgments. The special relationship is codified in law in only one instance. The 1946 McMahon Act, in effect, singles out Britain as the sole nation with which the U.S. may share its know-how about nuclear weaponry. But, despite the absence of formal bonds and the existence of severe strains, the relationship continues to manifest itself in scores of ways-particularly work routines and friendships. In London, the British Foreign Office has direct telephone lines to only two embassies: the Dutch, as Britain's closest Continental ally, and the American...
...been put into the laboratory by the elaborate labor of society and has the responsibility to do something of value. Isolation is a method of solving a problem, not a way of life." What brought him out of the laboratory in 1953 was strontium 90, a product of atmospheric nuclear-bomb tests then considered harmless. Commoner's restless intellectual curiosity was aroused; he studied all available research on radioactive fallout. What he found frightened him -and he set out to share his concern with others...
...supply of oil in time of emergency. The argument has become increasingly threadbare. The U.S. has varied and reliable sources of supply, including Canada and Venezuela, and Alaska North Slope oil will be coming on stream in 1975. That would be enough to assure supplies through anything but a nuclear war, when the question would probably be irrelevant...
...with Charles' apparent suicide in the mid-'60s. This is the Age of Anxiety's baroque period, and Charles and Julian experience many of its significant furbelows: postwar empiricism at Oxford and Cambridge, uneventful military service, the California beat scene and damp marches through England for nuclear disarmament...