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...Keeping nuclear weapons from outer space...
...least a dozen new African nations who have proposed an intricate bargain in exchange for their support. They want West Africa's little Mauritania to get membership this session. Cleverly, Moscow enters the picture with a threat to veto Mauritania unless one of its own pets, Outer Mongolia, a puppet republic embedded in Red China, gets in the club at the same time. So the Africans have told the U.S.: Accept both Outer Mongolia and Mauritania as U.N. members, and we will vote with you against Red China-at least this year. The U.S. assented. But Chiang Kai-shek...
...genuine community of nations which identified their common interests in preserving a rough balance of power and the basic integrity of the treaty ... It kept the peace for a hundred years." Fulbright's community would be limited to free nations (the "inner community" for Atlantic powers, and the "outer community" of free nations elsewhere), could start in existing institutions, such as NATO...
...first, meteorologists raised many objections; they doubted the rainfall statistics on which the theory was based, and they were sure that any dust particles that cause rainfall must come from the earth's surface, not from outer space. Bowen met the first objection by analyzing more precipitation statistics-including Japanese snowfall records that have been kept for 330 years. Most of the records supported his theory; none directly opposed...
...These steps were: (1)a ban on nuclear testing; (2) a ban on production or transfer to unarmed nations of fissionable materials; (3) a ban on transfer of control over nuclear weapons to states that do not now own them; (4) an agreement to keep nuclear weapons out of outer space; (5) destruction of existing nuclear weapons; and (6) destruction of existing nuclear delivery vehicles, such as rockets or bombers...