Sentences with phrase «caused nuclear catastrophe»

Director Richard Linklater and author Eric Schlosser will be in attendance at the screening of this new documentary film based on Schlosser's book of the same name, about the 1980 accident in an Arkansas missile silo that nearly caused a nuclear catastrophe.

«The distance that almost caused nuclear catastrophe is also a distance where we share so many resources and interests,» Turekian said.

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An all - out nuclear war causing a nuclear winter would be a catastrophe for humankind; it would not only create social chaos, but also ruin the life - supporting ecosystem beyond repair4.

If the climate situation really was as dire as the alarmists suggest, why hasn't the government declared a state of emergency and started building new nuclear reactors as quickly as possible (cause a few Chernobyls a year would be an acceptable price to stop climate catastrophe), with any anti-nuclear protesters who try to stop them being simply gunned down?

If constitutional courts are nonetheless keen to avoid preliminary references to the ECJ, this has to do with the difficulties to come to a different conclusion than the ECJ's preliminary ruling and to thereby cause an open judicial conflict — especially since such a scenario has been portrayed as the legal equivalent of a constitutional catastrophe or the first nuclear blow in EU legal scholarship.