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...nuclear experts. A report prepared for the Atomic Energy Commission and released last week by the Senate Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization labels the nation's safeguards against nuclear theft and blackmail as "entirely inadequate to meet the threat." A study conducted for the Ford Foundation by Atomic Physicist Theodore B. Taylor and Arms Control Expert Mason Willrich makes the point even more strongly. In "Nuclear Theft: Risks and Safeguards," Taylor and Willrich report that amateur bombmakers could probably put together weapons as small as one-tenth of a kiloton (equivalent to the explosive force of 100 tons...
Greatest Deterrent. Physicist Taylor's warning has not been lightly taken; his credentials are impressive. During his seven years at the AEC's Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, he specialized in the design of compact and efficient A-bombs. Though Taylor admits that the fabrication of such devices is beyond the capability of basement bombsmiths, he feels that the manufacture of less sophisticated and powerful weapons...
Then Kapitsa expressed a desire to go abroad. I could tell he wanted the press to raise a lot of hoopla about his traveling to other countries. We deliberated the matter in the leadership. Even though we had let [Atomic Physicist Igor] Kurchatov go to England [in 1956], we decided to wait a while before sending Kapitsa abroad. We still hadn't accumulated enough atomic weapons. Therefore it was essential that we keep secret from our enemies any and all information which might tip them off about how little...
Achieving the precise spacing between donor and acceptor points to avoid the molecular version of a short circuit may be difficult, Aviram and Ratner admit. But, adds IBM Physicist Philip Seiden, chemists are already skilled at manipulating molecular structure and might be able to build molecular devices that will some day perform all the chores of today's tiny chips...
Sakharov takes exception to Solzhenitsyn's emphasis on the suffering of the Russian people, as distinguished from other Soviet nationalities that have been victimized by the Kremlin. As a Russian, Solzhenitsyn was writing about what he knows best, Sakharov concedes. Yet, the physicist points out ironically, "it has been the special privilege of non-Russians to suffer forcible deportation and genocide, suppression of their national-liberation movements and oppression of their national cultures...