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...Handouts in the Dark "The North's Bitter Harvest," on how North Korea is on the brink of famine [June 20], addressed a controversial issue. Should other countries provide North Korea with humanitarian aid when it refuses to relinquish its nuclear arsenal? The answer should be no. We do not know if donated food really goes to the poor and needy. How can one expect to resolve a crisis without being certain of the facts? We should decide to provide aid only if we know for certain the hungry will receive the food. Jennifer Bo-yu Chen Bangkok
...President Reagan is not eager to agree to a total test ban, even if verification procedures could be worked out. And any deal would surely meet fierce opposition from the Pentagon. The military, with support from the major weapons-research laboratories, wants to continue experimenting with its modernized nuclear arsenal, particularly technology that might be used to implement the President's Strategic Defense Initiative. Last Saturday at an under ground site in Pahute Mesa, Nev., northwest of Las Vegas, the U.S. exploded a device (code-named Goldstone) designed to channel the energy of a nuclear blast into a concentrated, powerful...
...nuclear arms race, there were visionary plans afoot to end it. In 1946, while the U.S. still had a monopoly on the revolutionary new weapons, Washington proposed creating an international agency that would take control of all nuclear weapons and material, after which the U.S. would relinquish its arsenal. "We are here to make a choice between the quick and the dead," declared former Wall Street Financier Bernard Baruch in presenting the plan to the fledgling United Nations. Moscow's Ambassador, a youthful Andrei Gromyko, put forth a Soviet counterproposal: a ban on the construction of atomic weapons...
...when the contra campaign finally petered out, the Sandinistas would probably have accumulated an arsenal of East bloc arms far beyond even what they have now; they would have succeeded in militarizing the society even further, perversely helped by the pretext of the civil war; and they would have built up an even greater grudge against Tío Sam, hence an even greater incentive to go to work on their rather fragile neighbors...
...rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete" through a space-based shield of missile-killing satellites, the Soviets have seemed almost fixated on blocking the plan. Partly, experts speculate, it is because they fear the U.S. has a strong advantage in developing new technologies. Also, the Soviets see their arsenal of missiles as fundamental to protection of their homeland and their status as a world superpower...