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...questions. I also wanted to seek his advice on how I could help others to learn about the nuclear arms issue. By this time I had learned a little more about him. I knew that he was a professor of chemistry emeritus. He had helped to build the atom bomb and in 1959 became the science adviser to President Eisenhower. Later he left Washington, becoming active in the arms control movement and now was devoting full time to his duties as chairman of the Council for a Livable World...
Indeed the Commission was plagued with problems almost from the first. After the exciting breakthroughs of the Manhatten Project, which developed the atomic bomb, the task of working out the details of nuclear power plants was relatively mundane. As Ford writes, "Nobel prizes are not given to people who do plumbing, even for a nuclear reactor's cooling system." The result was that many of those most talented in nuclear physics returned to the ivory tower or took on positions in weapons development...
...importance of resolving Lebanon's fragile status was underscored when Walid Jumblatt, the influential leader of the Muslim Druze community, narrowly escaped an attempt on his life. When a bomb exploded hi his car, Jumblatt suffered minor injuries, but a bodyguard and at least three bystanders were killed. More than 100 people have been killed in the past two months in clashes between the militia of Jumblatt's Progressive Socialist Party and the Phalangist-dominated Christian militias known as the Lebanese Forces. Before the latest incident, the government of President Amin Gemayel asked the U.S. to help maintain...
...Pakistan's nuclear capability: I am very categorical about this: Pakistan has no nuclear bomb. And Pakistan has no intentions of having a nuclear capability of JORDAN military significance. We have a modest nuclear capability for which we are trying to acquire a bit of technology for peaceful purposes. We have a nuclear plant in Karachi. We are trying to build another nuclear plant so that by 1984 the gap in our energy requirements will be filled. That...
...author's picture on the back, the book is singularly devoid of anything new in the way of facts, valuable impressions or lucid argument. It comprises 167 pages of maundering glop whose gloppishness ought to be abundantly evident to the most fanatical West Bank settler as well as any bomb-chucking PLO member, provided both have a half a frontal lobe in working order...