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...wide enough to prevent cross-pollination, and a coalition of 11 environmental groups is filing suit against the Agriculture Department. They want to ban the use of food crops for pharmaceutical uses and restrict the plants to greenhouses. If such measures were enforced, argues Jonathan McIntyre, chief scientist for Monsanto Protein Technologies, "it would set back the industry 12 to 20 years...
...plans have their own detractors, including nuclear scientist and Pentagon adviser Sidney Drell, who says even a tiny 1-kiloton weapon exploding 50 ft. deep in rock would spew radioactivity across a wide swath of the planet. Arms-control advocates worry that possessing smaller and more precise nuclear weapons would scuttle efforts to stop worldwide proliferation. Said Senator Dianne Feinstein last week: "This Administration seems to be moving toward a military posture in which nuclear weapons are considered just like other weapons." --By Mark Thompson
...recently acquired a new asset in its diplomatic battle with North Korea over nuclear weapons. In what appears to be a major intelligence coup, the CIA last month recruited a scientist who worked on North Korea's nuclear weapons program, two U.S. officials and a foreign government source tell TIME. The scientist (who is not from the North and whose identity TIME was asked to withhold for the sake of his family's safety) has been relocated to the U.S. and has provided valuable information on the "location, degree of development in capabilities, where they are, and how far along...
...scientist wasn't the only one ratting out Kim Jong Il last week. Two North Korean defectors, wearing hoods to protect their identity, appeared before a U.S. Senate subcommittee and described how the dictator bankrolls his weapons programs by making and exporting narcotics. One of the defectors, who said he was a high-ranking government official for more than 15 years before sneaking out of the country in 1998, said the cash-strapped government began developing poppy plantations in the late 1980s; in 1997, all collective farms were ordered to devote at least 25 acres to the cultivation of opium...
...troops pulled out of the region as part of a peace deal to end five years of civil war. Getting Ahead NORTH KOREA In what appears to be a major coup in Washington's diplomatic battle with Pyongyang over nuclear weapons, the CIA last month recruited a foreign nuclear scientist who worked on North Korea's nuclear weapons program, two U.S. officials and a foreign government source told TIME. The scientist provided valuable information on the "location, degree of development in capabilities, where they are," one U.S. official said. The information helped confirm that the North Korean program is much...