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...policy. Yet India is in desperate need of firm government to tackle urgent economic problems, including inflation currently running at 15%. To add to India's troubles, Pakistan has not abandoned its efforts to acquire an enriched-uranium plant, a crucial step in developing the so-called Islamic Abomb...
Pakistan's ABomb...
...Dimona nuclear reactor went into operation in 1964. Meanwhile, an intense secret debate had begun within Israel about whether the government should also build a separation plant to produce the fissionable material necessary for an Abomb. Ben-Gurion and Shimon Peres, then Deputy Defense Minister and currently Israel's Defense Minister, favored doing so. Others, including Mrs. Meir and Yigal Allon, now Israel's Foreign Minister, initially opposed the project. So did Ben-Gurion's successor as Premier, Levi Eshkol. The Israeli equivalent of the U.S. National Security Council vetoed the separation-plant project in early 1968. Shortly afterward, Eshkol...
Died. Jonathan Norton Leonard, 71, TIME'S Science editor from 1945 to 1965; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Leonard covered the development of the Abomb, the first nuclear reactor and the early discoveries of the space age. A man of wide-ranging curiosity, he was a biblical scholar as well as a Latin American specialist; he could describe quasars or the ways of night-flying squirrels with precision and clarity. Such books as Flight Into Space and Crusades of Chemistry made Leonard one of the nation's most respected science writers. ∙ Died. Clifford Durr, 76, Federal Communications...
...have to develop an almost entirely new technology. Unlike nuclear fission -the splitting of a heavy atom into two lighter ones-fusion occurs when two light atoms collide and merge into a heavier one. The reaction releases considerably more energy than fission. Starting the chain reaction that causes fission (Abomb) explosions and powers today's nuclear reactors is relatively easy; basically, all that is required is the bringing together of enough fissionable uranium or plutonium in the right shape. The neutrons emitted by these naturally radioactive elements then begin the self-sustaining chain reaction...