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India's scientists, who think differently, are confident that they can explode a nuclear device within 18 months. A Canadian-built reactor is in operation near Bombay, another is under construction, a third is on order...
...only potential obstacle is an Indian pledge to Canada that reactor products-notably the plutonium needed for nuclear weaponry-would be used solely for peaceful purposes...
...first, U.S. avithorities seemed to agree that the Chinese must have used plutonium as their fissionable material. The process of separating U-235 from natural uranium requires enormous amounts of electric power, and China is power poor. Plutonium, on the other hand, is made in nuclear reactors, which require little external power. China is known to have reactors, and both air surveyance and ground spying have reported a large reactor complex near Paotow in Inner Mongolia. Japanese students of Chinese activities also agreed that China must have used plutonium because it lacked the electricity needed for the production...
...China is woefully lacking in chromium and nickel, two elements basic to the operation of an atomic reactor...
...trying to assassinate the Premier of a new African nation, who was visiting a nuclear chemical plant near Washington. Napoleon Solo and a female companion (Patricia Crowley) in a spangled evening dress tried to prevent the killing and were soon being boiled like lobsters in live steam from the reactor. If all this sounds like the late Ian Fleming, it is. Fleming, while only fleetingly a consultant, was in spirit the creator of the series. Fleming held back a little more than his name. Solo is authentic Bond with a private label...