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...less potent than the fabled poison and remains inert until it comes into contact with air or water. And few researchers have studied--much less established--possible links between long-term exposure to gold-mine tailings and damage to human health. "It's all debatable," says Dan Ziarkowski, an expert on hazardous materials for the state Environmental Protection Agency. True, chronic exposure to arsenic has been connected to cancer and kidney disease. But, Ziarkowski says, "how that relates specifically to mine tailings, and at what level you have concern, we don't know...
Critics also challenged the French decision on technical grounds, questioning whether this series of tests would mark a fundamental advance in simulation technology. "A few more tests won't really make much difference in their program," says a U.S. State Department expert. "They can improve it, but they won't perfect it." Pascal Boniface, director of the Paris-based Institute for International and Strategic Relations, agrees: "These tests are not going to perfect simulation techniques right away." Other skeptics were quick to point out that live tests were in any case unnecessary for the development of simulation techniques, since...
Although the U.S. is willing to offer more help, the French have declined. "This is a question of national independence," explains Marc Launois, deputy director of military applications for France's Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), the agency that manufactures and tests nuclear weapons for the government. A defense expert and former presidential aide says, "We want to protect our own concept of arms building. If we cooperate fully with the Americans, how could we protect our secrets?" The implication is that in the future, if not now, France could be tempted to develop new types of weapons...
...their justifications for the tests are not entirely convincing, French scientists--and others--have largely refuted the notion that the underground experiments pose any immediate environmental threat. Since 1982 at least five expert studies--including one by antinuclear marine biologist Jacques Cousteau and one by the International Atomic Energy Agency-- concluded that France's Pacific tests at Mururoa and nearby Fangataufa atoll, conducted from 1966 to 1992, had caused no radioactive contamination and no significant ecological impact...
...enraged by Wright's constant use of the Unabomber as an authority on the problems that plague our times. Wright seems to have forgotten that the Unabomber is a killer, not a leading expert on the causes of despair. The biggest threat to our well-being is not in our genes but in the absence of moral clarity and purpose. When we start quoting serial killers, we have lost our moral compass. I am disgusted that TIME and other publications have legitimized rather than condemned this murderer. RICK SHUMAN Los Angeles...