Word: nuclear
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Major Miscalculation. The Soviet Union, with a few demurrers, generally goes along with the U.S. version of the treaty, which is only some 800 words long. The U.S. draft prohibits the manufacture of nuclear explosives by havenots, establishes a control system through the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency to make sure that no reactor fuel is diverted to weapon-making, guarantees to all signatories of the pact the cooperation of the nuclear powers in such peaceful activities as canal blasting or mountain removal, and extends security guarantees to the non-nuclear powers. It also argues that NATO does...
...Soviet Union at first believed that they could get the other countries to go along with such a treaty without too much trouble, but they badly miscalculated how deep emotions run on nuclear subjects. Many of the smaller powers feel that the treaty is unfair and one-sided. India and Sweden asked why the have-nots should give up their right to bombs if the haves give up nothing in return. West Germany, which believes that it has the potential to be second only to the U.S. in building and selling reactors, fears that the treaty would handicap its nuclear...
...nightmare of diplomats is a vision of dozens of countries of every size and temperament in possession of the nuclear bomb. This nightmare haunts the U.S. and the Soviet Union most of all, since together they have the overwhelming majority of the weapons and an acute realization of the unimaginable destruction that they could work. In recent months the two nations have put together a draft treaty that would limit nuclear weapons to countries that already have them and ask all others to forgo an atomic arsenal. Last week, as the diplomats of 18 nations gathered in Geneva to discuss...
...this course of conduct. If, as seems likely, Europe's politicians are riding a secular wave of anti-Americanism and general je m'en foutisme, why not leave them alone for a while? So long as the nations of Europe are protected against military conquest by the American nuclear guarantee, made more real by the presence of several divisions of American troops as hostages to our intentions, these nations have the economic and political strength to resist Soviet threats or dangerous blandishments. They are strong enough to engage in their own bridge-building between East and West, and they...
Crimeds talk to the people who fascinate them--politicians, military men, agitators. They write about the things that intrigue them--poverty programs, sexual mores, nuclear physics. They learn about Harvard, they learn about journalism, and they learn about the world...