Word: spreading
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...truth is that "proliferation cannot be stopped," says Gotz Neuneck, a physicist at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy in Hamburg. "If a country wants to develop these weapons, it can do it." Even slowing the spread is difficult. The nuclear nonproliferation treaty bars development by or transfer of the weapons to non-nuclear states. It has done some good, but it has not prevented additional states from acquiring the bomb. Several, including India, Pakistan and Israel, simply refused to sign. Iraq, on the other hand, signed the treaty but cheated. Iran and North Korea signed and have...
...major obstacle to controlling the spread of these weapons is that even medium-size countries can build them using domestic industries and imported "dual-use" equipment -- high-tech items that have civilian as well as military applications. Last year, says Kenneth Timmerman, a specialist in Middle Eastern security issues, Germany sold a total of $5 billion worth of goods to Iran. Japan sold Tehran nearly $3 billion worth and the U.S. shipped almost $1 billion. Much of the trade involved "dual use" items...
...anticipation surrounding the announcement of Jonas Salk's new, intensely hyped AIDS vaccine at the international AIDS conference in Berlin quickly turned to disappointment. In experimental trials it seemed to slow the virus' spread as advertised, but other researchers maintain that the effect is too small to be significant...
Political scientists Edward G. Carmines and James A. Stimson propose a model of issue evolution in national politics. They argue that an activist elite--consciously or unconsciously--presents an issue, urges the media to spread the word and hopes that the community will respond...
...When I first came here, I was talking about some single-back sets and no-back sets and people said, 'You can't do that!' and 'You can't play the game that way!' But you see a lot of it today. The single-back set. Opening up the spread sets. The exciting part of the game...