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...Objections to the treaty may be based more on the uncertainty of a post-Cold War world than on strategic considerations. "The U.S. really doesn't need to test nuclear weapons any longer because we have more than enough bombs to destroy all life on the planet," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "Maintaining the readiness of that strategic arsenal is already being done via computer testing; the U.S. hasn't conducted an underground test in seven years." The treaty, which would only come into effect once all nuclear-capable states have ratified it, is, however, considered an important brake...
...investment by American firms in the country?s torpid economy. But don?t expect to see your local deli carrying North Korean kimchee any time soon ? prospects for trade may be somewhat limited by the fact that the famine-ridden communist country?s most important export in the post-Cold War years may well have been the very missiles it has now undertaken to curb...
...buying them off, but that?s the cheapest thing we can do at the moment," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "Even if we were to send troops and threaten them, that would be unlikely to ease tensions. And the money does influence them." In these wacky post-Cold War times, it seems, one way for states short of funds and friends to get invited back to the party is simply to act a little crazy...
Although a rising Venezuelan radical may hardly register on the radar of post-Cold War Washington, Hugo Chavez may soon make his presence felt with regular Americans - at the gas pump. Chavez, elected president last November by an overwhelming majority, is moving quickly to consolidate control of his nation?s political institutions, and from there to use the nation?s considerable oil revenues to finance populist spending. This may sound merely like some improbable '60s flashback, but Venezuela?s state-owned oil company is the largest oil supplier to the U.S., and that ?- together with Chavez?s attempts to breathe...
...ethnic cleansing cannot be permitted." The troops gathered in a hangar at Spangdahlem air base in Germany cheer. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, standing in front of an F-16, is explaining the war in Kosovo to them. It is, to her, a defining mission for America in the post-cold war world. It is also, for someone who had to flee Hitler, then Stalin, as a child, a very personal mission. As President Clinton proclaims when she is finished, "Secretary Albright, thank you for being able to redeem the lessons of your life story by standing...