Sentences with phrase «of nuclear holocaust»

Three decades after the end of the cold war, however, the larger danger of a nuclear holocaust involving thousands of nuclear explosions and tens to hundreds of millions of immediate deaths still persists in the U.S. — Russia nuclear confrontation.

It is said that in the event of a nuclear holocaust Jonathan Ashworth will still be working in the Labour leader's office.

The Survivors of the nuclear holocaust called the war Judgement Day.

Other branches, such as Seventh - day Adventists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and more exotic groups like (but not including) the now - infamous Branch Davidians, receive only passing attention, as do secular doomsday warnings of nuclear holocaust and environmental destruction.

But this historical dynamism has brought with it the idea of conquest and the consequent results in absolutisation of State power, world wars and threat of nuclear holocaust quite unknown to traditional societies.

From this paradigm comes his current focus on nuclearism; he sees the potential of nuclear holocaust as pervasive in our psyche, our society and our public policy.

We live in a troubled world in which the danger of nuclear holocaust constantly grows.

And this, quite correctly, spawns fear about terrorism, diversion of fissile material into the wrong hands and the risk of more warheads at a time when the world is making its best endeavours to rid itself of the spectre of the nuclear holocaust.

What is important about this film is not that it serves as a history lesson (although it does) but that, at a time when the threat of nuclear holocaust hangs ominously in the air, it reminds us that we are, after all, human, and thus capable of the most extraordinary and wonderful achievements, simply through the use of our imagination, our will, and our sense of right.

But, as the Cold War meets the sexual revolution, and the threat of nuclear holocaust escalates, the lifelong friendship of the two girls is shattered — by the clash of desire and the determination to survive.

Nixon is still in charge after repealing the «two term» rule, and the world is in the grip of the Cold War and the likelihood of nuclear holocaust.

This postapocalyptic thriller about a boy's search for truth in the wake of a nuclear Holocaust shares The White Darkness» themes of family conspiracy and survival in extreme elements.

Even if it means spending the rest of his days locked in Civilis, a tower prison for society's unwanted — «half - humans» gifted by the fallout of nuclear holocaust centuries past.

Modern Warfare took players to a contemporary world threatened by madmen with plans of nuclear holocaust.

Giving new meaning to the phrase «nuclear family», Sheltered tasks you with keeping a mother and father, and their children, alive in the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust.

Released in 1997, «Fallout» is an open - world RPG in which what's left of the human race lives in the wreckage of a nuclear holocaust.

One such moment was that doom - laden post war period when the specter of nuclear holocaust haunted a world still reeling from a devastating world war.

In his subway drawings and murals, Haring explored themes of exploitation, subjugation, drug abuse, and rising fears of nuclear holocaust, which became increasingly apocalyptic after his AIDS diagnosis.

We will skip the question of what the future population size will be, except to note that the increasing chances of a nuclear holocaust, a deadly pandemic, and / or already plummeting human sperm counts may transform a likely lethal population explosion to a dramatic population crash.

The specter this time isn't World War III, the Clock's longtime focus — disarmament treaties have slashed the numbers of nuclear warheads to a fraction of their Cold War peak — but a raft of terrifying new threats that, in the Bulletin's estimation, more than make up for the receding menace of nuclear holocaust.

Add to that the threat of war and the possibility of a nuclear holocaust and it is now widely recognized that humans have in their hands the instruments of vast environmental devastation.

In the event of a nuclear holocaust, J.G. Ballard said, Paolozzi's enormous body of work «could serve as evidence to reconstruct the 20th century.»

Description: In 2031, something's going down on a train carrying the only survivors of a nuclear holocaust.

Unless a small company of resisters faces up to the real threat of nuclear holocaust, we may well be the last evil people on earth.

He knew that the meeting was little more than a communist propaganda ploy, but he also sensed that the threat of a nuclear holocaust was so grave he had to take a stand for disarmament, despite resistance from the Reagan administration and steel - tipped invectives from the Religious Right.

And, if I'm to be honest, at this point of my reflections my tolerance wears very thin indeed: in a world of mass murder and mass starvation, of unprecedented terror, odious tyrannies, and the threat of nuclear holocausts — in such a world there is something obscene about an order of priorities that starts off with bigger and better orgasms.

It remains to be seen whether these broadcasters» message will be perceived by many as an adequate answer to some of the problems facing American society as it nears the end of a century: the persistent problems of economics, inflation and unemployment; the growing shortages of energy, water, and space; the changing identity of America in international relations; and the rising threat of nuclear holocaust.

I remember the same feelings when I was a teenager, during the ever - present threat of nuclear holocaust.

In perhaps the most excessive metaphor in cinema this year, the threat of nuclear holocaust has been used to represent the disintegration of a lifelong friendship between two teenage girls.

At a time when the younger generation, anxious to escape the dullness and squalor of the 1950s, living in the shadow of the Cold War and of the possibility of a nuclear holocaust, experimented with hallucinogenic drugs, these paintings were said to inspire audience participation.

Global warming, unlike the threat of nuclear holocaust, presents no clear villians or heroes, is not caused by external factors but by our own doing, and can not be subdued or controlled by conventional means.

«We face a threat that is nearly unique in its scope and danger (setting aside for the moment the threat of nuclear holocaust),» Professor Smithey wrote, quoting the McGlade - Ekins study.

Indeed regarding the N - word, Helen Clark reckons global warming is akin to the threat of nuclear holocaust that hung over the world during the Cold War.