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...high price tag, an estimated $6 billion over two decades. But unlike the missile defense shield, which carries costs of up to $8 billion per year and is not yet functional, this program would take concrete steps to reduce the risk of a nuclear threat by reducing the world??€™s stockpile of easily obtainable plutonium. Terrorists who acquire this plutonium will be inventive enough to transport their bombs inside the United States through means less exotic than ballistic missiles. By canceling this program to better afford a missile shield, the Bush administration would perversely increase the danger...
...administration officials let slip that they would not oppose a Chinese buildup of their nuclear arsenal. Tacitly encouraging any nation to build more nuclear weapons represents a dramatic shift in foreign policy. Since the end of the Cold War, nuclear powers have sought to preserve peace by reducing the world??€™s nuclear weapon stockpiles. A Chinese buildup seems certain to encourage similar measures by other Asian states, raising the risk of a new arms race. This bizarre overhaul of 50 years of non-proliferation doctrine is designed to garner Chinese support for the missile shield, by ensuring that...
Jessica S. Zdeb ’04, a Crimson editor, is a history concentrator in Adams House. This summer she is slaving away in a hot kitchen for the Boston University Tanglewood Institute while trying to become the world??€™s first human classic rock jukebox...
Only two athletes in the world??€”Venelina Veneva of Bulgaria and Inha Babakova of the Ukraine—have jumped higher than Gyorffy this year, with season-bests of 2.04 and 2.03 meters, respectively. Olympic bronze medallist Kajsa Bergqvist of Sweden, who competed collegiately against Gyorffy at SMU, is the only other athlete to clear two meters this season...
...finished studying the signatures and walked past an emptying synagogue (Ringo’s shul, I joked) on the road back to the Tube station, I began to sense that what the great Rav Abraham Isaac Kook said of the Western Wall was also true of the world??€™s best-loved crosswalk: There are men with hearts of stone, and there are stones with hearts...