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Another proposal, sponsored by Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Ernest F. Hollings of South Carolina, got 39 votes. It would have forced oil companies to get out of such other energy businesses as uranium production and coal mining. Should it become law, Continental Oil, for example, would have to divest Consolidation Coal, the nation's second largest coal producer...
...charged debate continues in and out of Washington on one item on Israel's shopping list: the Pershing missile, which has a nuclear potential. Although Jerusalem has never confirmed or denied it, U.S. intelligence experts assume that Israeli technicians have built about ten bulky A-bombs using the uranium that is a byproduct of the country's Dimona reactor. In an interview with TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter, Peres explained Israel's views...
...experiment at Columbia University's cyclotron in Manhattan that confirmed the findings of scientists in Germany and elsewhere about the possibility of controlled atomic fission. "Believe we have observed new phenomenon of far-reaching consequences," he scrawled in a diary. Dunning's later research showed that Uranium 235 was the most fissionable isotope, a discovery that led to the gas-diffusion method of refining U-235, currently used in nuclear bombs and most atomic power plants...
...intelligence experts believe that Taiwan's self-reliance will eventually include nuclear weapons, produced with enriched uranium from existing reactors on the island. The probable target date for a nuclear weapon is 1980. An American expert who has been studying nuclear developments on Taiwan explains that "they are making the tests by programming experiments on computers, the way the Israelis did," rather than openly exploding their weapons...
...keeps mounting. At the Geneva meeting, British Diplomat David Ennals pointed out that in 1970 there were 101 known nuclear power reactors in the world; by 1978 the total will have risen to at least 329, all of them producing as a byproduct deadly plutonium, which can substitute for uranium in making atomic weapons...