Sentences with phrase «of nuclear age»

Sixty years ago, on a day in August, the dawn of the Nuclear Age in Asia left nearly a quarter of a million people dead, with two devices considered crude by modern standards.

After researching and writing four volumes on the history of the nuclear age, I think I understand the fundamental and unacknowledged source of nuclear fear.

Her research interests include questions of artistic labor, feminism, queer theory, fabrication / production, performance, visual culture of the nuclear age, photography, and textile handicraft.

-- yes, the allcaps - exclamation is an important distinction — as imagined through the lens of nuclear age wonder and Cold War paranoia.

As a grueling «trip» movie and cautionary tale of the nuclear age, K - 19 fits the bill.

At its center are two children of the Nuclear Age — one a savvy, cynical, modern L.A. woman; the other an innocent, naïve young man cocooned...

«This designation from the ANS recognizes HFIR's role in the history of the nuclear age, but it also speaks to the excellence of its design and operation,» ORNL Director Thom Mason said.

In this episode, the first of a two - part interview with anthropologist Carel Van Schaik about the role of culture in boosting intelligence in animals; historian and writer William Lanouette discusses an upcoming History Channel program about the roles of Einstein and Leo Szilard in the beginning of the nuclear age; and Scientific American editor - in - chief John Rennie reports on a recent sustainable development conference.

Working near the original test site revealed personal stories from the dawn of the nuclear age to the show's cast and crew.

The organization's early years chronicled the dawn of the nuclear age and the birth of the scientists» movement, as told by the men and women who built the atomic bomb and then lobbied with both technical and humanist arguments for its abolition,» states the organization's Web site.

David N. Schwartz talks about his latest book, The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age.

The Structure of Nations and Empires: A Study of the Recurring Patterns and Problems of the Political Order in Relation to the Unique Problems of the Nuclear Age.

Surely they know better than to agree with Schell's description of the nuclear age as «the second fall of man.»

Eisenhower, says Gaddis, was «at once the most subtle and brutal strategist of the nuclear age.»

Not exact matches

Hering aged out of flying helicopters during the Vietnam War and decided to take a job as a missilier: one of many pairs of people in bunkers across the US that can launch intercontinental ballistic missiles tipped with nuclear warheads.

Those plants are aging, and if we replace them with new nuclear plants they would struggle to compete against the shrinking costs of wind and solar.

In 1972, at age 15, he was involved in a community group that opposed a nuclear power plant proposed for two miles north of New York City (a proposal that the utility company quickly withdrew).

Also, if the age of oil will wind down some day (as it must, since oil is a limited, nonrenewable resource), I wouldn't be surprised by a nuclear resurgence.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP)-- The U.S. Department of Energy said Wednesday that it is entering negotiations with General Electric's nuclear division on a proposal to replace an aging uranium enrichment plant in Kentucky with a new facility.

One small town Christian pastor defies intelligence for fame and profit and brings years of hard won positive, expensive diplomatic international relations into the dark nuclear ages.

In an age of proliferating nuclear powers, it would be «naive to propose that we have no need for intelligence services.

In this essay, theologian Sallie McFague, author of the influential Models of God: Theology for an Ecological Nuclear Age, engages in what she calls heuristic theology.

Such is the need, so McFague claims, of our «ecological, nuclear age.»

This paper is based in part on material from my book, Models of God: Theology for an Ecological, Nuclear Age.

If what is needed in our ecological, nuclear age is an imaginative vision of the relationship between God and the world that underscores their interdependence and mutuality, empowering a sensibility of care and responsibility toward all life, how would it help to see the world as the body of God?

In a nuclear age, we confront a sorrowful God whose righteous anger boils over in the face of our folly.

The discoveries and scientific creations of recent years in the field of nuclear energy, transforming our period into a new power age, are directly traceable to the discoveries of radioactive elements by Becquerel and the Curies, inaugurating the new physics.9 A new depth of relations and energy revealed in both earlier and more recent experiments has routed the world - view of mechanism which Newton and his followers through the nineteenth century had come to take for granted.

In an ecological, nuclear age, so McFague reminds us, it is in our interests to align ourselves with the aims of God, for God herself is on the side of life.

Models of God: Theology for a Nuclear Ecological Age.

The distinction between the nuclear and traditional family was also blurred in the recent report on human sexuality by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) titled Keeping Body and Soul Together: «Although many Christians in the post-World War II era have a special emotional attachment to the nuclear family, with its employed father, mother at home, and two or more school - aged children, that profile currently fits only 5 percent of North American households.»

They can begin to welcome — gingerly perhaps — the churches and other NGOs as consultants and partners in the process of formulating ideas and programs, and in mobilizing public opinion in support of proposals that may make it possible for humanity to survive and thrive on this planet in a nuclear space age.

In Theology in a Nuclear Age he writes that theology must redefine God as «the unifying symbol of those powers and dimensions of the ecological and historical feedback network» sustaining the fragile web of life.

Science and Belief in the Nuclear Age is a collection of twenty - six papers, articles and lectures written over the past decade or so.

They, however, risked only embarrassment; in a time of potential exile in a nuclear age, we risk far more.

Such an assessment of the prophets may at first glance seem idealistic, but actually it is exceedingly realistic in the nuclear age.

After World War II the executive branch of government argued that it needed absolute power in foreign affairs because (1) in a nuclear age, when missiles can make the trip from Moscow to New York in 20 minutes, there is no time to consult Congress and the people, and (2) the «secret, subversive» techniques of the communists can be challenged only by subversion and secrecy on our part.

to close and we fry, to far and our sun would be dead from old age 6 - of the 3 forces (weak nuclear forces, strong nuclear forces and gravity) scientist are stumped why gravity was not evenly split like the other 2.

This «overwhelming» exercise of American power has been a crude reinforcement of the worst impulse of human history — but this is the nuclear age, and that impulse simply must be checked.

Then add to these the computer with a host of other advances in electronics, and the nuclear space age as a whole, and we have a vast structure of modern miracles.

The faith - group programs, representing Protestant, Catholics, and Jews, have consistently provided documentaries, dramas, and discussions which dealt with issues almost never touched by commercial broadcasting: the economic factors behind nuclear armaments; the issues behind draft evasion (during the Vietnam War); the real causes of worldwide starvation; and the problems of people who are ignored almost completely by the media, such as the aging who can not live on their pensions, unwed mothers, farm workers who have no homes, undocumented aliens whom we wish to employ but not pay, and refugees we are sending back to certain death in their own countries.

We need partners who believe that governments should be more concerned about the care of the aged and indigent than the protection of fertilized ova, flags and nuclear stockpiles.

What is meant is that no conceivable increase in superiority of military capability can in a nuclear age provide security.

Models of God: Theology for an Ecological; Nuclear Age.

Flag - waving preachers are always disturbing; they become truly frightening in an age of nuclear weapons.

Models of God: Theology for an Ecological and Nuclear Age.

The second profound social change is that we are now living in a nuclear age compounded by increasing international tensions, violence, terrorism, and the stockpiling of nuclear weapons.

While the accelerated pace of social change and the fact that we are living in a nuclear age are clearly phenomena of which no one is unaware, the same can not be said of the crucial shift in the information environment.

For instead of foresight and planning, there is only reaction, and the great problem is that it is never possible to know in advance when it will be too late to react to a calamitous environmental change — especially in a nuclear age!

Furthermore, the radical changes that the nuclear age has brought to the phenomenon of war make it impossible to weigh means against ends in the way required by just - war theory.

She tends to find the double love commandment as incapable of achievement, but affirming its direction she expresses it in terms she regards as more adequate for a nuclear and ecologically threatened age.