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...will be detonated unless he agrees to their terms: a total overseas troop withdrawal, an annual donation of $50 billion for Third World projects and the release of all black and Hispanic prisoners. It sounds like the stuff of spy thrillers. But, warns Theodore Taylor, a former Princeton University physicist who once designed compact nuclear weapons and now is a Washington consultant, the acquisition of plutonium bombs small enough to be smuggled into the U.S. is "a real threat...
Well before the incoming Reaganauts decried the U.S. Nuclear Nonproliferation Act, West European critics maintained that the law constituted a sledgehammer approach. They resented U.S. efforts to force them down the same road. As Bertrand Goldschmidt, a French physicist and former chairman of the I.A.E.A., puts it, "Applying nonproliferation measures is a delicate matter. It's like using drugs in medicine. If you are too strict, you can push countries into autarky...
...Physicist John Wheeler, a leading black-hole theorist, sees another implication -- ominous, but rather far off. If Sgr A* is a black hole, he says, it is continuously consuming bits and pieces of the galaxy, becoming gravitationally more powerful as it does. "The more it eats, the more it wants," explains Wheeler. "In that sense," he says, "it is eating the galaxy, which means, it is conceivable that the Milky Way could one day be consumed...
...Army Major Arthur Nicholson Jr. and reminded Gromyko of "how these incidents blow our relationship off course." Although the Soviets seemed to acknowledge Shultz's lecture on the Nicholson killings, Gromyko turned icy when the Secretary of State chastised him for Moscow's treatment of dissidents like Physicist Andrei Sakharov, who, along with his wife Yelena Bonner, has been exiled to the isolated city of Gorky. Soviet sources indicate that Sakharov went on a five-day hunger strike last month that ended when he was taken to a hospital and was force...
...will be essential to direct a missile-killing system. Even before so- called fifth-generation computers are ready, the Innovative Science and Technology Office, part of the Star Wars effort, is attempting to leapfrog to sixth-generation computers powered by light beams rather than electricity. Such computers, says IST Physicist Dwight Duston, "will be much smaller, much lighter, faster and almost immune from natural and man-made radiation." Some of those features would make a sixth-generation computer valuable in commercial uses...