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...trouble with Weiss's complaint lies in the assumption that only the U.S. can solve what is a global problem. Says David Fischer, a former assistant director-general of the I.A.E.A.: "The U.S. can no longer legislate the world nuclear industry. That may mean more nonnuclear diplomacy rather than nuclear denial...
...presumed to have the ability to manufacture nuclear weapons, acknowledged that it has the Krytrons and offered to return any unused tubes to the U.S. A spokesman for the Israeli Defense Ministry said none of the Krytrons had been exported to a third country, and all were used for nonnuclear defense-industry research. However, Israeli and American sources in Washington say that the Krytrons were purchased for Israel's Bureau for Scientific Coordination, an innocuously titled office that runs the country's nuclear-weapons programs...
Oddly, on the weapons front the most recent research development may actually be something of an embarrassment to the Administration. Reagan has laid great stress on developing a "nonnuclear" defense, but the strongest laser beams that might eventually be used to destroy missiles are X-ray laser beams -- and they are produced by detonating atom bombs. In underground tests of an atomic device in Nevada, researchers are said to have considerably increased the brightness of X-ray laser beams, which would greatly extend their potential missile-killing range. Research into X-ray laser beams at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory...
...years, we should seek a radical reduction in the number and power of existing and planned offensive and defensive nuclear arms, whether land-based, space-based or otherwise. We should even now be looking forward to a period of transition, beginning possibly ten years from now, to effective nonnuclear defensive forces, including defenses against offensive nuclear arms. This period of transition should lead to the eventual elimination of nuclear arms, both offensive and defensive. A nuclear-free world is an ultimate objective to which we, the Soviet Union and all other nations can agree...
Reagan's determination to exorcise the demons of Alamogordo and Hiroshima explains the insistence in the strategic concept that defenses too must be nonnuclear. Some of Reagan's own Star Wars planners privately feel that the language of the document is too restrictive, since some possible schemes for S.D.I. would require nuclear explosions in order to work (see following story). While Reagan takes seriously the goal of a nuclear-free world, most members of his Government still do not. "It's there in our rhetoric because the President wants it there, and he's the boss," says a Pentagon official...