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...resulting treaty, worked out in Geneva, commits the signing nations (60-odd, so far) to the historic agreement. Nations without nuclear weapons will not produce or receive them in the future from the present nuclear powers. The pact also promises have-nots the full peaceful benefits of the atom, while committing the nuclear powers to move forward toward effective arms limitation and disarmament. France and Red China refused to sign the treaty, while several nonnuclear powers, notably West Germany, India and Brazil, have objected that as signatory nations they would be left vulnerable to enemy attack...
...speech saying that the U.S. couldn't win in Viet Nam, Alsop, writes Miller, called the Senator's office three times to denounce him as a "traitor" to his country. To win in Viet Nam, Alsop is even willing to use what he calls "Mr. Big"-the atom bomb-Miller says. "Friends call the Alsop manner imperial," sums up Miller; "enemies, when they are being kind, refer to it as arrogant...
...After the criticism was published, he dashed off a scorching letter to Harper's-though he does not plan to answer the Center. He hotly denied that he had ever called Kennedy, one of his favorite politicians, a traitor. He said that he had never referred to the atom bomb as "Mr. Big," or advocated its use anywhere. He conceded that he had been "overoptimistic" about the "timing" of events in the Viet Nam war, and promised not to get trapped into making such predictions again. But he stuck to his guns on the progress...
...most people today, the word brings to mind a fetchingly skimpy swimsuit. Few now recall that Bikini was the site of the world's fourth atom ic detonation and the cradle of the hydrogen bomb. It has been 22 years since the atoll's docile people were banished by the atom, and gentling nature and the passage of time have leached away Bikini's residual radiation. Lush vegetation once more covers the island. Through their long exile, most of it on inhospitable, isolated, mosquito-plagued Kili Island, the 300 or so Bikinians have huddled in a beachfront...
...January, George B. Kistiakowsky, Abbot and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, resigned from a Pentagon project staff working on the planned anti-personnel barrier between North and South Vietnam. Kistiakowsky, designer of the explo- sive trigger of the atom bomb, would not speak of his resignation in any but a philosophical fashion...