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...show another and bigger (50-to-200-MW) reactor under construction; analysts think it will come on stream next year. A plutonium-reprocessing ! plant also is nearing completion. Fuel, of course, is not enough to make a weapon; it must then be shaped into an explosive device. A recent defector says North Korea has built an underground nuclear weapons design or research facility to construct deliverable bombs. They can be dropped from airplanes; but if the aggressor has only a few bombs and the potential victim has any kind of air defense, the bombers could easily be shot down before...
...Fifth Man," the British spy for the Soviet Union who worked with Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean and Anthony Blunt during and after World War II? For four decades, espionage fans have had no shortage of suspects. Last year Soviet defector Oleg Gordievsky published a book, KGB: The Inside Story, in which he fingered a scholarly Cambridge graduate named John Cairncross as the mystery man. Cairncross admitted long ago that he spied for the Soviets, but at the level of a footsoldier and in an effort to aid a wartime ally. The British government believed...
...Minority Party, Brown introduces ordinary citizens whose hopes, fears and prejudices explain much about today's politics. We hear from two skilled hardhats who get along well on the job and whose life-styles would indicate similar political views. But Justin Darr, a white defector from the Democrats, objects to intrusive government programs. Howard Jeffers, who is black, remains loyal to the party he sees as protecting the little guy. Brown points out that when the Democratic National Committee sponsored a massive opinion survey in 1985, seeking ways to recapture voters like Darr, the results were suppressed for fear...
Another challenge was "having to socialize with oil-rich Arabs in a style to which they had become accustomed," says Beaty. So there were late-night visits to nightclubs in Casablanca and purchases of exotic foods from Los Angeles to London. Once, a defector from the black network who was being interviewed in New York where he was in hiding turned to Beaty for a little spending money. "I gave him the last $100 out of my pocket," he says, "and he tipped the waitress...
...obsolete that it is discussed openly in scientific literature and can be built from relatively common electrical components. Though time consuming and unreliable, it nonetheless fooled American intelligence officials, who scoured the Iraqi desert with satellites for signs of more modern enrichment plants. Without the help of an Iraqi defector who turned up unannounced at American lines in northern Iraq last March, the U.S. would still be underestimating Saddam's nuclear potential...