Word: quester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...India is more respectable now." New Delhi insists that its nuclear "devices" will be used for peaceful purposes only, such as petroleum and natural-gas exploration. Most experts snicker at the disclaimer. "A bang is a bang. The technology is the same," insists a Canadian official. Adds Professor George Quester, director of Cornell University's Program on Peace Studies and author of The Politics of Nuclear Proliferation: "No one has yet bought himself a big firecracker and been able to let it go at that." In fact, India may now even be tempted to expend the resources to develop...
...impossible to limit the quest short of killing off the quester: man himself. In deed, those who would set limits are the ones who tamper with "the natural order of things...