Word: know-how
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...birthday party. Instead of creating battlefield reruns or splashy carnivals of no lasting value, the eelebration money would be used to redevelop a city or even an entire region. This regional concentration would be the quintessence of the national spirit, demonstrating the admirable virtues of teamwork, brainpower and American know...
...feel that an even more alarming possibility is the effect the Chinese nuclear capability may have on the world's secondary powers. At least nine nations have the wealth and expertise to develop a nuclear bomb. The peaceful use of nuclear energy has, ironically, given them both the know-how and material for making bombs; nuclear reactors used for generating electricity produce many pounds of plutonium, the explosive material in H-bombs. Among these threshold nations are Australia, Canada, West Germany, Italy, Sweden and perhaps South Africa. At a cost of $1 billion, any of them could build...
Fortunately, work on such a device does not have to start from scratch. Much of the know-how has already been accumulated by a Chicago lab called the Olfactronics and Odor Science Center, part of the Illinois Institute of Technology Research Institute. Under a $300,000 grant from the Federal Aviation Administration, the smell researchers have developed a prototype "bomb sniffer" that scents incriminating odors with all the dispatch of a highly trained bloodhound. In fact, the system has so impressed the Israelis that they have adapted and improved the design for their own harassed airliners, though they have...
...talks are totally shrouded in secrecy. Nevertheless, some diplomats in Moscow suspect that the two sides may be nearing agreement on a joint draft of a renunciation-of-force treaty. Such an agreement would undoubtedly open the way for the West German financial aid and technical know-how that the Soviets so badly need to help their troubled economy...
...other area of Brandt's leverage is trade and technical aid. East Germany's own economic success has stemmed largely from increasing trade with West Germany. Both Poland and the Soviet Union want West German credits and know-how to help get their stagnating economies moving...