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...most bizarre shortages that may result from the Reagan defense buildup concerns a man-made mineral that many people feel is already in all too abundant supply: plutonium, a uranium byproduct used in the manufacture of nuclear weapons. The Reagan defense budget calls for stepped-up production of the ground, sea-and air-launched cruise missile and the Navy's Trident II submarine-based missile, as well as deployment of the MX missile system. Most of these weapons will be tipped with nuclear warheads...
Recent accounts of the death of nuclear power are premature. The laws of nuclear physics exist. They cannot be suspended or amended. Consequently, those laws and their byproduct, nuclear power, are beyond legislative fiat. The technology is still in its infancy, with all of the attendant promise of a baby...
...have to dig big holes and bury this stuff," said Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Richard Lyng in Chicago, waving a piece of moldy cheese. "American taxpayers are spending almost $2 billion this year buying up dairy products nobody wants." Lyng was referring to the most blatant and expensive byproduct of the nation's complex array of agricultural support programs: the 12.6 billion Ibs. of surplus milk produce that the Government has purchased (at a cost of $1.9 billion) to help stabilize dairy prices...
...experts, like Sociologist Dr. Kersti Yllo of Wheaton College, Norton, Mass., speculate that "loving" violence may partly be a byproduct of women's push for equality. Uncertainty about once traditional roles, she reasons, makes men more anxious to assert themselves and women more anxious to fight back...
...diverting enriched U-235 is not the only option for the bombmaker. A-bombs can also be fashioned out of plutonium, which is a byproduct of the modern alchemy that occurs in reactors. Even relatively small reactors can produce several pounds a month of a type of plutonium that lends itself to bombmaking. Equally important, plutonium, unlike the nearly identical isotopes of uranium, is a separate element with its own distinctive characteristics. Thus it is relatively easy to pick out by ordinary chemical means from other radioactive material...