‘Five more have bomb’

Press, 3 May 1977, Page 9

‘Five more have bomb’

I NZPA-Reuter Washington I Five small countries) I in Europe, Africa, South America, and Asia now ■ have nuclear weapons, lor will have them by the end of the year, according to an avant garde but authoritative American magazine. An article in the May 1j issue of “Rolling Stone”i magazine entitled “Pluto-’ nium For Sale” identifies the) countries as Argentina,! South Africa, South Korea,! Spain, and Taiwan. The article, quoting Wash-)-ington sources, says the five I are getting nuclear arms by diverting fuel from com-! mercial nuclear reactors. j Countries which have | atomic bombs are the United I States, the Soviet Union,) I Great Britain, France, China, - India. There also have been! widespread reports that Israel has the atomic bomb. This increase in “nuclear (growth,” the article says,' “. . . can only bring the world closer to the day! when the mice will roar and! all the people will shake.” ! The article also charged, that the Federal General: (Accounting Office has 1 finished an investigation, not yet made public, which; found that between 7000 kg and 9000 kg of enriched ura-l nium and plutonium, which could be used in making: atomic bombs, could not be) accounted for at privately-: owned United States nuclear plants. j