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...BRAZIL. Like Pakistan, Brazil solemnly denied for years that it had an atom bomb program. The country's new civilian President, Fernando Collor de Mello, has admitted publicly that such a military effort was under way, and has ordered it closed down. He shoveled a symbolic two scoops of lime into a 1,050-ft. test-site shaft last month and ordered the site closed...
Under military rule from 1964 to 1985, Brazil launched its nuclear program in the 1970s. There is no clear explanation why the country set out to build the Bomb, a project that has cost hundreds of millions of dollars, but nationalism and the desire to become a regional superpower had a lot to do with...
...government announced that it was able to produce uranium enriched enough to fuel power reactors. The program was, of course, "exclusively peaceful." Brazil signed cooperation agreements on nuclear technology with Iraq in 1981 and China in 1984. Until their return two weeks ago, 21 Brazilian rocketry engineers had spent 18 months in Iraq working to improve Baghdad's missiles...
...recent public statements, experts both inside and outside Brazil remain less than convinced that the country is finally out of the Bomb business. The Collor government still refuses to sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty -- "an unjust instrument" because it does not apply to acknowledged nuclear powers, the Foreign Ministry says. There are also doubts about whether the government controls the military...
...UNCERTAIN GRACE: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF SEBASTIAO SALGADO, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The first U.S. exhibition for the Brazilian-born Salgado, a onetime economist who took up photography to document life in developing nations. Whether in a Peruvian village, an open-pit gold mine in Brazil or a refugee camp in Ethiopia, Salgado sees not just hardship, though he sees a great deal of that, but also the immemorial underpinnings of life -- tradition, community and work -- that give suffering a meaning. Through...