Word: nuclearism
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...have to enjoy banging your head against a wall, you have to feel vaguely guilty about it on those rare occasions when you don't, in fact, have a headache." With the dramatic, surprise trip by U.S. envoy Christopher Hill to Pyongyang after the regime's promise about nuclear inspection - all part of a recent slew of backing-and-forthing between the Hermit Kingdom and the rest of the world - there is a lot of head-banging nowadays among that small band of masochists...
...little to lose from allowing North Korea to come out of its largely self-imposed isolation, accepting the blandishments of the Americans, the South Koreans and the Japanese - that is, fuel oil, economic aid, the renewal of full diplomatic relations with the U.S. - in return for giving up his nuclear program...
...power. Period. He doesn't give a whit about economic reform because it might come back and bite him - he watched democracy come to an increasingly prosperous South Korea, after all - and now will backtrack, delay and obfuscate until he finds an excuse to get out of the current nuclear deal. All the while, the skeptics believe, he will probably continue a separate secret program to enrich uranium to make the bomb. At minimum, the skeptics say, Kim will buy enough time to see who succeeds Bush, whom he doesn't trust (no matter what the Chinese President says...
...incident, government officials immediately ordered the seizure of computers that had sent or received the super-sensitive information. An inquiry was launched and a classified damage assessment completed last month. Weapons data does not appear to have fallen into enemy hands. But the extent to which classified nuclear secrets has remained on servers along various insecure Internet pathways remains an open-and troubling-question...
...incident is the latest embarrassment in a 10-year roll of highly publicized security lapses at the storied lab. The latest one to attract national attention occurred last fall, when New Mexico police stumbled on 1,500 highly classified nuclear weapons designs stashed in a trailer park near the lab along with paraphernalia to manufacture methamphetamine...