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Yifang Gong, a student at MIT, and his wife were walking near the school's Nuclear Reactor Laboratory when they were attacked by three men at approximately...
...question is nuclear, and how much plutonium they have separated from the spent reactor fuel. We don't really know. But once they have the requisite plutonium, they can have a weapon in from as little as a few months to two years. We believe Pyongyang is close, perhaps very close, to having a nuclear-weapon capability...
Indomitable and often unpredictable, Begin put an unprecedented strain on relations with the U.S. Ronald Reagan was caught off guard by the 1981 bombing of an Iraqi nuclear reactor, and a year later by Israel's bloody invasion of Lebanon. Such actions served to underscore a fundamental duality in Begin's nature: the peacemaker was not a pacifist, and never abandoned his dream of a Greater Israel...
...Camp David was the zenith of his career, his ineptness in economic policy nearly proved his undoing. By 1981 the Likud trailed in the polls. Just three weeks before elections, Begin ordered the attack on the Iraqi nuclear reactor. The raid, which helped the Likud eke out a narrow victory, signaled a newly aggressive Israeli military policy. On June 6, 1982, army tanks rolled into Lebanon. The country paid a high price: more than 600 of its soldiers died, and 3,000 were wounded. There were also psychological scars after Israel permitted Christian Phalangist militiamen to enter the Palestinian refugee...
...their frustration is growing at America's failure to conclude any deals. Last year, for example, Pentagon officials said they were ready to spend $10 million on a Topaz-2 space reactor, but Deputy Defense Secretary Atwood is said to have blocked the sale. He has also reportedly forbidden Pentagon officials to travel to Russia without approval from him or Defense Secretary Dick Cheney. NASA's attempts to approach the Russians, meanwhile, have been stalled by the State Department...