Sentences with phrase «by nuclear catastrophe»

His most celebrated work La Jetée (The Pier, 1962) imagines a Paris devastated by nuclear catastrophe and is composed almost entirely of black - and - white still photographs, which informed the narrative of Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys (1995) and influenced James Cameron's Terminator (1984).

Since mid-century, some Christians have foreseen not global conversion but global destruction, hastened perhaps by a nuclear catastrophe.

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Indeed, our cold war with the Russians, with whom we wrestle on the edge of the abyss of a nuclear catastrophe, must be solved spiritually, but by what specific political methods?

The possibility of major human catastrophe, whether by nuclear holocaust or by irreversible ecological disaster, is all too real.

The political and economic system created by the United States and its allies after World War II — a system built around common defense measures and free trade — rescued Europe from the self - inflicted catastrophe of 1914 - 1945, prevented nuclear war, preserved the peace until the collapse of the Soviet empire, and allowed once - captive nations to reclaim their liberties.

The first, by Tepco itself last November, placed blame for the nuclear catastrophe on a once - every -1000-year «unforeseeable» combination of earthquake and tsunami.

To avoid any kind of catastrophe, the reptiles went into hibernation for millions of years before being awakened by secret nuclear experiments in a Welsh mine.

There is a piece, by Peter Applebome, «The Power Grid Game: Choose a Catastrophe», about the Indian Point nuclear power plant and, in part, about climate change.

Surely the theoretical risk of accidents (catastrophes if you like) associated with civil nuclear reactors are on an insignificant scale relative to the risks faced by humanity by running out of energy.

In 1982, nations have two choices: to carry on as they are and face, by the turn of the century, an environmental catastrophe which will witness devastation as complete and as irreversible as any nuclear holocaust, or to begin now in earnest a cooperative effort to use the world's resources rationally and fairly.»

Dirty bombs make big messes, and may require massive relocations, as at Chernobyl, but they pale by comparison to the primary threat that Allison has written about in Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe — the possibility that terrorists might get hold of and detonate a nuclear bomb in a majoNuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe — the possibility that terrorists might get hold of and detonate a nuclear bomb in a majonuclear bomb in a major city.

You can only believe there is a looming catastrophe if a) you believe that man is responsible for 100 % of the CO2 increase (that is in serious doubt), b) an increase of up to 2.0 °C is not beneficial (there is much evidence that it is beneficial), c) over the next 100 years there will not be any major advances in energy production (now we can switch to nuclear within 10 - 20 years), and d) man can realistically do anything to effect global temperatures (the US EPA estimates proposed CO2 restrictions costing tens of trillions of US dollars would reduce global temperature by 0.006 °C).