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Walker's plan, which will be considered next month, may include fireworks, laser beams, and music, according to David A. Aloian '49, executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association...
...rate of proliferation could grow rapidly worse. Small, easily concealed new technologies for producing nuclear explosives are becoming available in world markets. Among them: high-speed centrifuges and still experimental laser systems for enriched-uranium production. Such systems could be engineered to produce the explosives needed to build the Bomb. Says Paul Leventhal, president of the Nuclear Control Institute, a Washington-based think tank: "History demonstrates that in the nuclear field, any technology ultimately is exported -- and Third World countries will...
...International Institute for Strategic Studies, and in Flight International magazine and the International Defense Review. Even knowing the strategic plans of NATO for resisting a Soviet invasion across the north German plain is not all that important. What really interests the Soviets is such things as clues to laser components in systems for navigating nuclear submarines underwater, the guidance mechanisms of antitank missiles, and the engine air filters you put into battle tanks. The fact is that military technology has become the main espionage battlefield...
Oddly, on the weapons front the most recent research development may actually be something of an embarrassment to the Administration. Reagan has laid great stress on developing a "nonnuclear" defense, but the strongest laser beams that might eventually be used to destroy missiles are X-ray laser beams -- and they are produced by detonating atom bombs. In underground tests of an atomic device in Nevada, researchers are said to have considerably increased the brightness of X-ray laser beams, which would greatly extend their potential missile-killing range. Research into X-ray laser beams at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory...
What the Soviets are doing, in fact, is a major U.S. justification for the whole Star Wars effort. The Administration insists that the Soviets are pushing hard a Star Wars program of their own. Washington asserts that the U.S.S.R. has 10,000 scientists working on laser research alone (the number of American scientists similarly engaged is believed to be considerably lower) and has actually spent as much on defensive as on offensive missile development for more than 20 years. A recent Pentagon publication goes so far as to claim that "with high priority and some significant risk of failure...