Nuclear arms
Sir, —The covert diversion of enriched uranium from Germany to Pakistan (or Libya, or elsewhere) is bad news. Britain, France, the United States, the Soviet Union and China are usually assumed to be the nucleararmed States. However, although 132 nations have signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty of 1970, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, India, Israel, Pakistan and South Africa are not among them. India has the capacity to make nuclear weapons and so, probably, has South Africa. Israel is believed to be nuclear-armed. International agreement on the most stringent controls over fissionable materials is needed to prevent further nuclear proliferation. World power politics, as well as local rivalries, are to blame for the possible addition of Pakistan to the nuclear club. Although the United States sides with Pakistan, she should try to stop development of nuclear weapons there. Through their hitherto unrestrained nuclear arms race the super-Powers have set a very poor example to other nations. — Yours, etc., COLIN BURROWS. January 24, 1988.
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