Sentences with phrase «nuclear destruction»

Changes in the threat of nuclear destruction do not affect stock prices; the social mood as reflected by the stock market affects the level of the threat.

Superman (Christopher Reeve) tries to save the world from nuclear destruction at the hands of Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman) in this action film featuring the man of steel.

The threat of global nuclear destruction made the eschaton intelligible.

William Perry, the 19th secretary of defense for the United States, says today we have three clear paths towards nuclear destruction.

It also assumes that the desire to avoid nuclear destruction provides today an incentive for disarmament that invalidates the conditions upon which disarmament was predicated in the past.

The U.S. strikes that brought nuclear destruction of those two cities also thrust the world onto a new trajectory — one that led to the terrifying development of the far more powerful hydrogen bomb and the ruinous arms races of the cold war it entailed.

It's amazing what fearing nuclear destruction will do to you, but by this day and age, we don't even seem too rattled by that prospect.

They include such things as nuclear destruction from Return to the Planet of the Apes and Godzilla to space microbes as in The Andromeda Strain.

As for trying to put probabilities on nuclear destruction and the resulting impact on stocks ignoring the greater issue of the impact on life as we know it, nuclear war with North Korea remains a very low probability event.

Nuclear destruction permanently scars the planet, your capital city and its surroundings likely burned to cinder.

His works, many fabricated from sheet - metal siding, focus on both timeless themes of life, death, and rebirth, as well as contemporary political and social issues, including nuclear destruction, domestic terrorism, civil rights, and the degradation of the environment.

The report, «Socionomics in a Nutshell» (December 1999), demonstrated in brief that in the realm of economics, politics, demographics, war and even the threat of nuclear destruction, events are not causal to social mood and stock market trends.

Angelina Jolie stars as a CISA agent fighting ingle - handedly to save the world from nuclear destruction.

But with the diminished threat of nuclear destruction, the eschaton has slipped its leash.

In my view, there are at least six key factors which have caused and continue to affect a global transformation of consciousness: the revolution in communications, globalization of the economy, a growing awareness of the degradation of the environment, demographic shifts, the threat of nuclear destruction and the advent of the new science.

Here's a selection of President Obama's promises about reducing nuclear weapons and the threat of nuclear destruction.

There is not a final contradiction here between what love requires and what we accept as political necessities so long as we recognize that the threat of nuclear destruction may help to restrain nations from all out war long enough to allow the growth of a minimal world order under law which can bring the weaponry under control.

Since World War II we have lived under this shadow of nuclear destruction, darkening as missiles and carriers grew in numbers and power, darkening as our defense budget doubled every decade: $ 10 billion in the «40s, $ 20 billion in the «50s, $ 40 billion in the «60s, and $ 80 billion in the «70s.

There is for instance a fun opening credit sequence set to Bob Dylan's The Times They Are A-Changin» documenting the history of this alternate 1986 universe on the brink of nuclear destruction, showing costumed superheroes hanging out with Andy Warhol and one of them shooting JFK.

The film returns audiences to the action genre's grandest premise of protecting the President, and even throws in a contemporary factor of nuclear destruction.

This absurdist comedy - musical deals with one of the most serious issues of our time: the threat of nuclear destruction.

Her testimony — and that of the other children — provided spectators in the packed hearing room with a dramatic portrait of an age group said to be deeply troubled by living under the threat of nuclear destruction.

Following the nuclear destruction of the Middle East, the oil - producing nations of South America form the Federation in response to the economic crisis, quickly growing to become a global superpower.

I've enjoyed how Bethesda's Fallout games (and Obsidian's) have handled world building without giving you the exact circumstances that led to the war and nuclear destruction of the United States.

Gastaldon's embrace of spirituality and psychedelia is genuine, but she also explores mankind's darker side through her allusions to nuclear destruction and the pervasive imagery of mass marketing.

On the pedestal, he inscribed text taken from John Hershey's 1946 report on the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima and the aftermath of nuclear destruction.

The power and method of nuclear destruction have also reinforced the point of view that human beings can penetrate the a priori structure of the universe, that there is a superhuman code to knowledge that we are at least beginning to unravel.

The genesis for the exhibition World Made By Hand is the 2008 novel of the same title by James Howard Kunstler, in which citizens of a rural town in upstate New York rebuild their society in the aftermath of devastating personal loss due to nuclear destruction, epidemics and economic collapse that has all but eliminated the comforts of modern living — no electricity, automobiles, common medications like antibiotics, or any kind of mass food production.

I don't remember that much of the 70's, (born in 69) but there definitely was an apocalyptic gloom and doom, «end of the world» mentality going on, nuclear destruction, an ice age was coming, (due to CO2 and other pollutants) followed in the 80's, by fears of nuclear war and the take up of the catastrophic man made global warming vision.

Passive deniers are similar to those who lived through the cold war years — they suffer from the «psychic numbing» of living under the constant threat of nuclear destruction, so they simply put the issue out of their minds.