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...expert at Harvard, believes the risk of nuclear proliferation out the back door of a rogue state is increasing. North Korea or Iran could conceivably sell a bomb to a terrorist group, and Osama bin Laden is unlikely to be put off by traditional methods of deterring a nuclear attack. That means plugging the source. Says Derek D. Smith, author of Deterring America: Rogue States and the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction: "If you can't deter the terrorist organizations, you'd better be sure to deter whoever is supplying them...
...concept of "nuclear accountability." Thus, according to Allison, if Kim Jong Il were to sell a weapon to bin Laden and that weapon were used against the U.S. or one of its allies, then the principle would require the U.S. to "treat this precisely like a nuclear-tipped-missile attack" and retaliate against Pyongyang. "That danger [of North Korean proliferation] has always been there," says Michael Green, until last year a senior staff member on the National Security Council. "But North Korea has a mailing address, and they know it. If there was a nuclear explosion somewhere, it would probably...
...East Asia closest to North Korea: South Korea, Japan and Taiwan. All are wealthy, technologically sophisticated countries that could go nuclear in a heartbeat. (South Korea had a clandestine nuclear-arms program in the mid-1970s.) But all reside snugly under the so-called U.S. nuclear umbrella--any attack by Pyongyang would bring the full destructive force of the U.S. military in response. And last week all swore off any notion that North Korea's test would make them rethink their policy of eschewing nukes...
DIED. Kanshi Ram, 72, activist member of India's caste of Dalits--or untouchables--who in 1984 organized millions of the country's disenfranchised by founding the Bahujan Samaj Party, which instantly became the most powerful lower-caste political party in India; of a heart attack; in New Delhi. Credited with spurring a radical shift in the perception of lower castes, Ram battled the upper-caste Brahmins and even criticized modern India's founding father, Mahatma Gandhi--revered for his advocacy of civil rights--for not doing enough to challenge the rigid social system...
...within one after a kill by junior co-captain Suzie Trimble, who posted a team-high 14 kills, made it 10-11. Just two points later, Brown (6-12, 2-4 Ivy) began a seven-point run to widen their advantage to 12-19, as the Crimson committed two attack and three ball handling errors in that span.After that point, the Crimson closed the deficit but only came within three points of Brown, as the Bears took the first game decisively, 30-25.The second game began in similar style as Brown’s dominating attack quickly put the Crimson behind...