1983: Reagan, Andropov, and a World on the Brink
by Taylor Downing · 23 Apr 2018 · 400pp · 121,708 words
43–4 illness and death 180, 213–16, 219–21, 234–6, 263 and the invasion of Afghanistan 76 meets with Averell Harriman 146–8 nuclear paranoia 80, 87, 147, 148, 201, 216–17, 237, 240 and Operation RYaN 83, 87, 88, 216 response to ‘evil empire’ rhetoric 89, 105 on SDI
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, 313, 314, 322 intelligence community see GRU; KGB; SVR invasion and occupation of Afghanistan 30, 76–7 and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 204–5 Kremlin nuclear paranoia 85, 86, 112, 125, 233, 238, 240 see also Able Archer 83 exercise; Operation RYaN Middle East policies 220 military strength and personnel 222–3
Drugs 2.0: The Web Revolution That's Changing How the World Gets High
by Mike Power · 1 May 2013 · 378pp · 94,468 words
Britain where the nation’s youth self-medicated, rejecting the strictures of a drab, individualist puritanism, Thatcherism’s dreary, market-obsessed world view, unemployment, heroin, nuclear paranoia, a dirge-like indie-rock alternative scene, and a pop chart dominated by trite, brilliantly bubblegum pop, choosing instead the intense collective euphoria of Acid
Bit Rot
by Douglas Coupland · 4 Oct 2016
paragraph in 1992, twenty years after that trip to McDonald’s, and no, the world didn’t end. It never does. Looking back on the nuclear paranoia and fear that defined the emotional texture of the Cold War—not just for me, but for much of the world’s population—I see
Visit Sunny Chernobyl: And Other Adventures in the World's Most Polluted Places
by Andrew Blackwell · 22 May 2012 · 355pp · 106,952 words
path or risking contamination. This was, after all, what most people wanted. But I hadn’t come all this way only to wallow in post-nuclear paranoia. I was here to enjoy the place, and this was the moment to make it happen. “Is there any way…” How to put it? “Is
Geek Wisdom
by Stephen H. Segal · 2 Aug 2011
tell when it’s time to remove yourself from a defective game board? The first several years of Matthew Broderick’s career were all about nuclear paranoia: first War Games, then Project X (1987), wherein laboratory chimps suffered inhumane radiation testing. V. BILLIONS AND BILLIONS (WISDOM ABOUT THE UNIVERSE) “ALL THESE WORLDS
Rocket Billionaires: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the New Space Race
by Tim Fernholz · 20 Mar 2018 · 328pp · 96,141 words
humanity, and its cessation the greatest possible calamity,” Goddard wrote in 1913. And he, of course, wasn’t around to have experienced the age of nuclear paranoia or human-driven climate change. Musk and Bezos, on the other hand, came of age during the twilight of the Cold War and became business