Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Washington's most persistent fears is that a determined terrorist group might succeed in stealing plutonium and bomb components. A congressional subcommittee on energy disclosed in 1982 that the guard force at one of the country's weapons plants failed to respond to a mock raid on a plutonium vault until 16 minutes after the "attackers" had left...
...espionage coups that have left trails of suspicion leading inexorably back to Kahuta. All those James Bond operations have conveyed the same unsettling message: even though the government of President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq firmly denies it, Pakistan appears to be developing the capacity to build an atom bomb...
...Kahuta is just one outcropping of a far bigger nightmare: nuclear proliferation, the spread of atomic weaponry, has entered a new and ever more ominous phase. As the 40th anniversary of the A-bomb explosion over Hiroshima approaches, the world has special reason to view what is happening with trepidation, at the very least. On the Asian subcontinent, in the Middle East, in southern Africa and, to a lesser degree, in South America, a number of countries have acquired or are in the process of acquiring the capacity to build atomic weapons. At the same time, the fragile international system...
...Moscow on an official visit last week, Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi charged that Pakistan's development of an atom bomb was "very close" to fruition. Earlier this month, the Indian leader had affirmed that such an achievement by his country's chief regional rival "will completely change the present military balance on the subcontinent. At no cost will we allow our integrity and security to be compromised." In 1974, India shocked the world with a "peaceful" underground nuclear explosion in the Rajasthan Des- ert; Gandhi's pronouncements hold out the threat that India might resume testing, perhaps even begin...
...makes it an exceptional case, Washington's attitude toward Jerusalem, as Van Doren puts it, "could prove to be the Achilles' heel of our nonproliferation policy." Other would- be nuclear powers cannot fail to note the high levels of U.S. economic and military assistance bestowed on Israel despite its bomb-in-the-basement status and draw their own conclusions about the universal sincerity of U.S. antiproliferation efforts...