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...prominent Harvard professor of war and international relations pushed for the development of civil defense measures at the University in a discussion on the threat of nuclear terrorism yesterday...
...contributed $1.57 million, making it the second-largest donor. Combined, the two sides spent about $11.5 million, exceeding the previous record for expenditures on a Massachusetts ballot question—$9.1 million was spent in 1988 over a proposal that would have shut down the state’s nuclear power plants. OTHER BALLOT INITIATIVES On ballot Question 2, voters rejected the proposal for “fusion voting,” which would have allowed more than one party to nominate the same candidate. The measure, which was backed by several labor unions, failed by a 30 percentage-point...
...Jong Il's nuclear blast in North Korea signaled an unsettling new era in the nuclear-arms race. The rules of the cold war have been replaced with a crude survival-of-the-fittest code. Many readers blamed the U.S. for misplaced attention on Iraq, allowing the North Korean threat to increase...
...When outlaws get the bomb" [Oct. 23], on the aftermath of North Korea's nuclear-weapons test, overlooked the significance of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), the only binding, multilateral commitment to the goal of disarmament by nuclear-weapons states. Signatories are obligated to negotiate and achieve the elimination of nuclear arms. To have any hope of stopping proliferation and creating security, the world's powers have to work toward disarmament. Fredrik S. Heffermehl Oslo Like all nuclear-weapons programs, North Korea's should be a concern for everyone. The notion of who is an outlaw and who occupies...
...There is no need for Japan to participate in [the talks] because it is no more than a state of the U.S." NORTH KOREA'S FOREIGN MINISTRY, suggesting Japan be excluded from six-party talks over the North's nuclear-weapons program. Pyongyang agreed to return to negotiations last week, but lashed out over Japan's refusal to accept the North as a nuclear power...