Word: developement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proliferation and the atomic arms race are probably greater now than at any time since the first mushroom cloud rose over New Mexico's desert near Alamogordo three decades ago. Last week, for instance, West Germany agreed to sell Brazil facilities and technology that could enable Brasilia to develop nuclear arms. Meanwhile, both the U.S. and the Soviet Union are pushing ahead with the development of new weapons that could undermine whatever progress may be made at the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), which are scheduled to resume in Geneva this week after a recess of nearly two months...
...order to explode their first atom bomb a year ago last May. Moreover, Brazil's professions that it would use its nuclear facilities only for peaceful purposes encounter some skepticism; Brasilia has not signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty, and there have been persistent reports that it plans to develop nuclear explosives...
President Ford has maintained that the U.S. will spare no effort to develop alternative sources of energy. Yet up to now the Administration has not answered the fundamental policy question: What should replace oil and natural gas, which presently supply more than 75% of the nation's power needs but are rapidly becoming scarcer as well as more costly...
...KOREAN-JAPANESE RELATIONS: Unhappy relations existed in the past between Korea and Japan. Since the normalization of diplomatic relations in 1965, we have striven to maintain and develop friendly relations, accepting Japan as a partner from the broader standpoint of contributing to the peace and progress of Asia. If South Korea were communized, the security of Japan would be threatened; and there would be a danger that Japan's domestic order would undergo a sweeping change...
...explored and culturally homogenized. There are few places to which the discontented cutting edge of mankind can emigrate. There is no equivalent of the America of the 19th and early 20th centuries. But space cities provide a kind of America in the skies, an opportunity for affinity groups to develop alternative cultural, social, political, economic and technological lifestyles. Almost all the societies on the earth today have not the foggiest notion of how best to deal with our complex and unknown future. Space cities may provide the social mutations that will permit the next evolutionary advance in human society...