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...infusive you may feel you're getting a gentle tan as you watch the film. This could be a spiffy updating of TV's first great Springfield--the setting for that archetypal '50s idyll Father Knows Best--rather than the wildly twisted suburbia of Homer Simpson or the Armageddon-arsenal Springfield of Kip Kinkel. The only weapon flaunted in The Truman Show is a dicer-peeler-grater...
STATUS Began secret weapons program in 1972 to reach parity with India, but restricted by U.S. sanctions since 1990. Just tested a new medium-range missile ARSENAL 15-25 warheads RANGE...
STATUS The only country to develop nuclear weapons and then give them up of its own volition. De Klerk dismantled the arsenal in 1991 and joined...
...very well, apparently. Less than 48 hours later, Washington is surprised again when India sets off two more test blasts--of much smaller, sub-kiloton yield--defiantly going ahead after the Administration has warned India to expect sanctions. The five tests reveal that India is designing a nuclear arsenal ranging from bomblets for blasting open a mountain pass to killer warheads able to obliterate cities. "The Indian leadership has gone berserk," says Pakistani Foreign Minister Gohar Ayub Khan, as his country refuses to rule out detonating its own test nukes. No one is more dumbfounded by it all than Clinton...
...Treaty signed by 149 nations and the 1970 nonproliferation treaty signed by 185 countries. These treaties do work: Argentina and Brazil both signed and no longer talk of building a bomb; South Korea and Taiwan have halted their nuclear programs; South Africa has voluntarily dismantled its small nuclear arsenal; Iraq has been manhandled into giving up its nuclear preparations. But that still leaves out plenty of ambitious nations, with little way to curb them. Iran remains intent on developing nuclear technology with what it can acquire by cash or stealth. Israel may feel compelled to beef up its basement arsenal...