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...failure to cooperate on issues of a global scale - though that could be a tragedy almost as great as any war. China is not sure we're capable of this sort of transcendence. So with the patience of thousands of years of history and the urgency of a rising power, it is gathering the tools to protect itself...
...Chilean earthquake carried the power of 10,000 Hiroshima bombs. It severed power and communication lines, closed highways, sparked looting and led the country's President to declare a state of emergency. Within minutes of the quake, Bieniawski had gathered the NNSA officials in a hotel lobby, where the group spent the next four hours trying to make contact with two sites - a military base and research reactor - where the uranium had been stored. Unable to reach one of the sites by phone, the head of the Chilean nuclear agency, Fernando Lopez-Lizana, eventually had to drive there himself...
...port of Valparaiso, 50 miles (80 km) to the north. On the evening of March 2, the officials and security teams met at the Lo Aguirre military base about 25 miles (40 km) from Santiago, which contained a military reactor built in 1977 for unspecified "defense purposes." The power was out, and moments before the convoy pulled out, the earth shook with yet another strong aftershock, with its epicenter at Valparaiso. As the convoy left, Bieniawski took out his phone, called up the sound track for the Pirates of the Caribbean movie - his favorite "pump up" track - and hit play...
...staged 18 successful coups since 1932, when a group of army officers and intellectuals overthrew the last absolute monarch. Since then, the military has ruled overtly or has influenced politics from behind the scenes. In May 1992, Bangkok's middle class rose up against a general who usurped power following an election in which he was not a candidate. Soldiers responded with deadly force. King Bhumibol intervened to end the bloodshed and restore democracy, and many believed the days of coups in Thailand had passed, as the army appeared to gradually retreat from any overt political role...
...honest and selfless force for developing the nation and a moral counterpoint to corrupt politicians, according to Chris Baker, co-author of A History of Thailand. This conveniently ignores a long history of corruption within the military and abuses of citizens' rights. But unlike Western democracies, in which power is divided among executive, legislative and judicial branches, Thailand has long relied on a balance of power among several institutions, including the legislature, the bureaucracy, the monarchy and the military. While Thailand's governments have promoted modern democracy and most Thai citizens have come to expect it, attempts to radically upset...