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...join the U.S. (1945), the Soviet Union (1949), Britain (1952) and France (1960). After its atomic explosion last May, India is now the world's sixth nuclear power. Others will certainly follow. Experts note that ten countries already have the economic and scientific resources to develop the bomb before the end of the decade (though none has yet announced plans to do so): Argentina, Brazil, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Pakistan, South Africa, South Korea and West Germany...
Naive Belief. Japan, the one country to have experienced a nuclear attack, has an understandable aversion to developing atomic weapons. If the Japanese or the Canadians, who sold India its reactor under an agreement prohibiting development of a bomb, wanted a nuclear capability, though, they could easily have it, as could the West Germans, who renounced all nuclear weapons in 1956 as a condition for joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Israel also could quickly become a nuclear power. Since the late 1950s it has had a large atomic reactor at Dimona in the Negev desert; the reactor has been...
...Program on Peace Studies and author of The Politics of Nuclear Proliferation: "No one has yet bought himself a big firecracker and been able to let it go at that." In fact, India may now even be tempted to expend the resources to develop a costly hydrogen bomb...
Ever since 1947 when it was founded by conscience-stricken scientists who had helped create the atomic bomb, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has recorded the imminence of a nuclear holocaust with a "doomsday clock" on its cover. Two years ago, after the U.S. and U.S.S.R. signed their first nuclear arms limitation pact, the Bulletin's editors set back the clock to twelve minutes to midnight-the farthest it has ever been from that apocalyptic hour. Now the editors are no longer so optimistic. In the September issue, the clock's hands will be pushed forward...
...ruptured pipe or a poorly designed pressure vessel" could cause the release over an area of 60 to 70 miles ten times the radiation that an American atomic bomb caused in Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945, Kendall said...