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...opportunities he faces as a result of SDI. He will also need a firmer ability to control the unruly, ideologically divided bureaucracy over which he presides. Both the case against SDI and the considerable leverage it gives the U.S. in arms control stem from the peculiar nature of nuclear weapons. Because they are too powerful to use and too powerful to defend against, nuclear weapons are selfdeterring. The two nations that possess such huge arsenals of last resort dare not go to war against each other. As Stanford Physicist Sidney Drell put it during the TIME conference, mutual assured destruction...
...more than cumbersome, half-a-loaf truces among its own warring factions. Like SDI, the grand compromise with Gorbachev would have to be a very personal initiative on the part of the President. For Reagan, the hardest part will be deferring indefinitely the fulfillment of his dream of a nuclear-free world in which ballistic missiles have rusted away in their silos and launching tubes. But his lieutenants, notably Perle, are talking about SDI not as an alternative to offensive nuclear weapons but as a supplement to a steadily upgraded American arsenal that will face a steadily expanding Soviet...
...flutter of laundry on clotheslines. But the laundry has been there, day and night, since April 27. On that day, most of the town's 40,000 citizens hastily collected a few belongings and piled into buses that evacuated them from the vicinity of the shattered Chernobyl nuclear reactor only half a mile away. They did not know then, and do not know now, whether they will return home in months or years. Or ever. On this and the following pages, TIME publishes the first photographs to appear in the U.S. of the ruined nuclear plant, the cleanup operation...
...Soviet nuclear attack on the U.S. could entail an intercontinental blitzkrieg: thousands of missiles launched from enemy territory, letting loose tens of thousands of deadly warheads surrounded by a nebula of hurtling decoys and debris. In half an hour, this lethal ''threat cloud'' would be over the U.S., raining destruction on cities and military targets alike. Trying to stop this deluge would require enormous technological breakthroughs in at least four areas: sensors, lasers, particle beams and computer programming. Should such advances occur, SDI proponents argue, a reasonably effective Star Wars defense would reduce to virtually zero the number of Soviet...
...month's twin mishaps won't alter France's official policy on the technology - nor are they alone likely to undermine the French public's approval of it as a clean, cheap energy source. But should Borloo's inspections turn up additional failings, France's long-term bet on nuclear power could face shakier odds...