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...Freedom Tower at the former World Trade Center site was supposed to be a glass-and-steel exclamation point on America's post-9/11 rebound, but after new concerns about an old weapon forced architects back to the drawing board last week, the project is looking more like a question mark...
...urge him to take firmer action against his neighbor. Meanwhile, Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, spoke of "disastrous" consequences for North Korea if it conducts a test, warning that the international community "has zero tolerance for any new country to go for a nuclear weapon." But for all the threats, intelligence gathering and diplomatic scrambling, nobody quite knows what...
...bomb neared completion, the scientists began to wonder about the morality of unleashing it on humanity. While many had qualms, Oppenheimer actually supported the use of the bomb in order to demonstrate to the world that the U.S. possessed such a capability. He feared that keeping the weapon a secret would guarantee its widespread use in future wars. Oppenheimer, influenced by Niels Bohr, idealistically envisioned openly sharing nuclear information with the Soviets to avert an arms race. He feared atomic war and nuclear terrorism. Oppenheimer used the fame that came out of the Manhattan Project to press these issues...
...exhibition is like a toy store for grownups. The several thousand products on display range from such low-tech items as a concrete bunker and a machine for filling sandbags at high speed to a nonlethal directed-energy weapon that can heat a human body to an unbearable temperature and an "acoustic sniper finder" that uses eight microphones to locate an enemy shooter based on the sound from his rifle shot...
...nuclear power, may be preparing to prove it by testing a nuclear device. Seoul says it has no evidence for this, and there are suspicions that the U.S. could be stoking such fears merely to justify a tougher policy toward North Korea. If Pyongyang were to test a nuclear weapon, it might in fact play perfectly into Washington's hands, convincing the international community to get serious about imposing painful sanctions. "If North Korea takes such reckless actions as conducting a nuclear test, it will further deepen its isolation and take itself on a road where its future will...