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...task of identifying the source of any bomb that is tested. Still, tracking the source of nuclear material is a complex, difficult endeavor--one that is hardly guaranteed success. To this day, there are questions about the origins of the material that Pakistani nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan sold to Libya. Among the material that Libya turned over after it abandoned its program was a precursor to highly enriched uranium--uranium hexafluoride. U.S. intelligence agencies believed it came from North Korea but spent months trying to prove it. They still haven...
Indeed, since the end of the cold war in 1991, not all the news on the nuclear front has been bad. South Africa, Ukraine and, more recently, Libya all willingly gave up nuclear weapons or the pursuit of them. Brazil and Argentina formally abandoned any thought of going nuclear. "I would also disagree with the basic premise that the pressure is all in the direction of going nuclear," says Mark Fitzpatrick, a proliferation expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. The North Korea test, he says, will have only marginal effects on how other countries view their...
...said Stein Toennesson, director of the Peace Research Institute-Oslo, who gave the statesman a 50% chance of taking the prize for his role brokering a peace between the the Free Aceh Movement and the Indonesian government. ?He has been involved in several peace processes in his life, in Libya, the Balkan; he has a special role in Kosovo; but the main reason is the role he played in Indonesia...
...hard, adjusting to life was even harder. Social life, Tia recalls, meant seeing "the same 10 people over and over." The sisters flew to Hong Kong at least once a month just to buy groceries. But major moves had become something of a specialty for them. They had left Libya for Vancouver as young girls, and it wasn't long before the Cibanis adapted to their trial-by-fire China immersion. Ports International grew into the perfect hybrid of foreign cachet and local sensibility that Chinese woman craved. Many customers believed that the clothes they were buying at Ports' growing...
...milestones for mankind because they led us to embrace hitherto unimaginable and unfathomable ideas. James Louis Ndirangu Nairobi Your special issue on Marco Polo's travels was fascinating. I was born in Scotland, migrated alone to Canada at 21 and have had the privilege of working and living in Libya, Hong Kong, Kyrgyzstan and Japan. As a global citizen, I count myself fortunate to have learned so much about humanity from the diverse places I have lived. Ian A.M. Robertson Kobe, Japan Liam Fitzpatrick's article, "Noodling together," about the intersection of Italian and Chinese food in Hong Kong...