A plutonium pit, in which a nuclear chain reaction is ignited, is the living, beating heart of a nuclear warhead. Locus of the most potential energy on earth, it’s the closest mankind has ever come to producing a devil in a bottle. Fire and brimstone, if you will, concentrated to a fare-thee-well in an orb the size of a grapefruit. In 2005, David Samuels wrote for Discover magazine:
Dr B.R. Ambedkar was an Indian revolutionary, a statesman, a scholar, a visionary, a civil rights activist, a political leader and a jurist. He was a student of history and economics at Columbia University, New York, where he received his PhD in 1917. He later read law at the London School of Economics and Grays Inn, London, where he qualified as a Bar-at-Law.
Is it possible for a city’s government to host an international sporting event without sacrificing the social and political rights of its own citizens?
In light of a new series of scandals surrounding the preparations for the upcoming 2014 World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil, the answer appears to be no.
For those civilians living on the fringes of society, the answer is a definitive no – not a chance.