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...differences that beset Franco-American relations, nothing angers Charles de Gaulle more than the U.S.'s refusal to help him build his atom bomb. Time after time, French officials have shown up in Washington with shopping lists for nuclear equipment and other gadgetry needed by De Gaulle's proposed force de frappe (striking force), only to be turned away. Last week, President Kennedy publicly, and emphatically, gave the French another...
...your arms tests, the air we breathe, the milk we drink, the food we eat?" cried Egypt's Foreign Minister. Some "neutrals" had well-meaning but irrelevant proposals of their own to make: Ethiopia's Acting Foreign Minister Ke-tema Yifru pleaded that Africa be declared an "atom-free zone"; Sweden's Foreign Minister Osten Unden plumped for a "provisional" test moratorium without any safeguards...
...they need in their library. They can study nuclear engineering in U.S. or European universities and buy nuclear instruments, equipment and materials on the open market. No scientific brilliance, only routine competence, is necessary to turn these readily available resources into practical bomb-making technology. According to one U.S. atom expert, a task force of 20 Ph.D.s and about 300 engineers could make something go boom...
...National Observer's attention-getting features are not uniformly wonderful either. Its cartoons are contently unfunny. The "Current Events Classroom" reduces issues to terms that are overly simplistic; it is easy enough to picture a four-year-old reading some stunning revelation--say, that atom bombs produce fallout--and exclaiming "Oh, my doodness!" But it is hard to imagine anyone much older learning anything in the "Classroom...
...that, discussion-even without agreement-has positive values. It can furnish clues to developing Communist policy. Far more important, it is necessary to keep the Kremlin fully informed of basic Western positions, thereby minimizing the chance of war-through-miscalculation in the age of the atom...