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...As a lived experience this revelation, or whatever it was, lastreport here a couple of experiences that more or less fit ed maybe twenty seconds...
...CIO's Left-Led Unions: John C. Cort 26 Of all weapons of mass destruction, nothing else compares with nuclear weapons...
...I was conscious of the universe...
...paper (the technology...
...Not an experience to make the heart race, but some- able five proofs, but I like my epiphany (theophany...
...But there was something pleasant from the nuclear genie...
...7 Democracy & its limits: John Garvey 9 The education of Theodore Ursus: E.F...
...A moratorium on U.S...
...of course, that five seconds after it happened I might have stepped The first such experience happened maybe fifteen years on an exploding manhole, or been conked from above by a deago...
...I know, of reality by means of a sudden intuitive realization...
...By simply testing components and using other nonnuclear tests, we already Public Affairs, Religion, Literature, and the Arts, is have adequate-and significantly less expensive-means of maintaining the readipublished biweekly except Christmas/New Year's...
...More financing would help...
...As Frank von Hippel, a 250 or 300 words naturally have a better physicist and international affairs professor at Princeton, notes, nuclear testing "is chance of being published...
...Roberts 11 Stuck with a Satanist?: Stephen L. Carter 15 Screen: RichardAlleva 18 Meeting the test Who was Didymus...
...nant") or griping ("you wouldn't believe what he said to me...
...There are inherent dangers in nuclear testing, both material and moral...
...the history of our understanding of it...
...It was pale blue, with enough agency has been strengthened...
...There is a demand for them and willBusiness Manager: Richard Haas ing suppliers: Countries and terrorists alike are scheming and shopping...
...how interesting...
...nuclear test ($100 million...
...ROBERT G. HOYT 4: 13 August 1993 Commonweal...
...the thought of an enemy nation-or of STAFF ourselves-using its nuclear arsenal is, finally, dumbfounding...
...or Roget's Thesaurus...
...about cision raises the moral ante against resuming testing, both for the slow accumulation of knowledge and the leaps of insight ourselves and for others...
...I saw the water slowly cover a flat white rock sitting of meaning...
...POSTMASTER: Send address changes to rotten about nuclear weapons but the U.S...
...taken as a symbol worldwide that nuclear weapons are usable...
...it was a repackaging But even this happy development would not protect the world rather than a discovery...
...Happened" is right...
...testing will do nothing to encourage proliferation...
...Nuclear testing ought to be a thing of the past...
...I looked through the sky, or so it seemed...
...On Pamela Quatse the contrary, it may slow it...
...The earth below wasn't state of nuclear weapons' development in North Korea, as well earth but sidewalk and pavement, familiarly dotted with oddas its success in forcing Iraq to allow intrusive monitoring, both ments of trash (newspapers, flyers, Chinese menus), well peoindicate the IAEA's growing stature and competency...
...It happened as I was walking down ly evaded the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency's mon- Columbus Avenue in Manhattan toward a deli, when I chanced itoring strictures, buying whatever parts it needed from willing to look up at the sky...
...nuclear arsenal...
...It's lasted some weeks as a live memone of the definitions of "epiphany" in the American ory...
...arsenal is not rusting-nor will it...
...I'm writing this now partly because I want it to stay in Heritage Dictionary: "A comprehension or perception memory, so that I can pay it a visit from time to time...
...It's something one can do deliberately...
...It was not crushing or threatening...
...But the Clinton de- tion of the tide, without knowing or caring what caused it...
...That will take untiring vigilance, a re- about it and maybe useful, adding a smidgen to my state of awareduction in the world's store of processed uranium and pluto- ness...
...nor does its unilateral action prevent which men and women accommodated themselves to the acother countries from testing in the future...
...they are a growCommonweal welcomes letters on subjects treated in its pages...
...es all the materials required for maintaining its nuclear arsenal, as well as for its Telephone: (212) 732-0800...
...The need for Not the ideal place or moment for an epiphany, but it hapnuclear vigilance will never be...
...ness and safety of the U.S...
...you could connium, and eventually some breakthrough in developing a truly template your checkbook, for example, or a bayonet, or toilet common security...
...Furthermore, the United States now possessand monthly July and August, by Commonweal Foundation, 15 Dutch St., New York, N.Y...
...Immensity came to NOTEBOOK Columbus Avenue...
...That undermines the nonproliferation regime in general, and it plays into the argument that the North Commonweal 13 August 1993: Koreans have been making that our nuclear weapons represent Then I began to reflect not on the phenomenon itself but on a threat to them" (Arms Control Today, July/August 1993...
...skills of observation and modes of thinking developed that made and Russia have agreed to do in 1996, the possibility is height- it possible to group the tides with other regularities of nature ened that countries such as India and Pakistan-nations that as examples of a "law," as effects of a "force" that could be have refused to sign on to the Nonproliferation Treaty because named: Gravity...
...moratorium went into necessary before anyone connected the motion of the moon with effect last year, no other country has tested...
...In short, there may be something Dutch St...
...It did so again last month when it persuaded a wavering Elizabeth Shannon 24 President Bill Clinton to forswear testing now, unless and until another counOrganized Labor and the Church/The try goes first...
...I'm not notably meditative or prayerdom and survival in a post-Hiroshima age...
...it discriminates against nuclear have-nots-might agree to sign Nothing about this experience added to the sum of human a comprehensive test ban...
...I was a little sorry for all of us, so tied to the street and the sidewalk, so A VISIT BY THE UNIVERSE occupied with getting and spending...
...but, it seems, enough...
...It did so in September 1992, when it forced BOOKS President George Bush-in exchange for funding the supercollider-to acJesus' Son: Daria Donnelly 23 cept a nine-month moratorium on U.S...
...rather, reassuring, making me feel at home and befriended...
...This gives Design: Emil Antonucci plausibility to the arguments of nuclear weapons' proponents who question the wisScreen: Richard Alleva dom of a testing moratorium...
...deterrent...
...Since the U.S...
...them...
...It is the price of human free- pened...
...ful, and this came uninvited...
...I doubt that anyone eyeing me at the moment would have seen any sign that anything worthy of remark was going on in my head...
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...Display advertising currently planned future weapons systems...
...This is a fair question, but the issues of proliferation and testing must not be Staff: Harriette Balsky, Carmen Alava, fused...
...The physical waste and nuclear fallout produced by such tests are very real...
...Advertising Manager: Ruth E. Taylor Nuclear tests are no longer needed to verify either the safety or the reliability of Publisher: Edward S. Skillin the U.S...
...Letters of not more than ing concern...
...Does Congress lead wisely...
...Seeing the tide, I thought It is true that by refraining from nuclear testing the United about the first human being who recognized its existence and States does not guarantee that other countries will not gain ac- predictability...
...The experience put itself BRIEF BUT NICE into words: "We should all be worshiping...
...The weaknesses of the IAEA were ex- able at that point-more than in midtown, yes, a lot less than in posed, almost gleefully, by its critics...
...These pled with walkers of all ages and conditions, dressed for the ratrace need further strengthening...
...I don't care...
...Its recent role in revealing the streaks of wispy clouds to be interesting...
...As a result, however, the Montana...
...I sat on a dock projecting from an island off Portland, Maine, flating blimp (these things happen...
...There aren't great reaches of sky availWestern manufacturers...
...The effect on attitudes is even more corrosive...
...Religious booknotes: Chemical and biological weapons may be terrifying, but they do not pack the overLawrence S. Cunningham 28 whelming destructive power of nuclear weapons...
...Since the end of the Gulf War it has become clear that Iraq The second epiphany was not of my doing and I don't think not only came close to developing a bomb, but that it skillful- it can be practiced, exactly...
...Portland, Me...
...Editor: Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Yet the fact is, nuclear weapons, once developed-particularly on a massive scale Managing Editor: Patrick Jordan by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council-acquired a life of Associate Editor: Paul Baumann their own...
...20 Poetry: Nancy Park 22 t is not often that Congress leads...
...That is what convinced Congress that further tests are not Commonweal, [ISSN 0010-3330] A Review of needed...
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...CONTENTS COMMONWEAL Volume CXX, Number 14 Correspondence: 2 Editorial: 3 Notebook: Robert G. Hoyt 4 Aging becomes them: Chris Anderson 5 Let's go to the text: Raymond A. Schroth 6 They've stolen my name: David R. Carlin, Jr...
...then about the hundreds of generations during cess to nuclear weapons...
...nuclear testing and an end to all nuThe Gonne-Yeats Letters: 1893-1938: clear tests by 1996...
...And, by promis- the movement of the waters...
...So my epiphany doesn't and watched the tide move in...
...I still like Aquinas's now unfashionin the mud...
...better...
...Don't worry, I didn't say the words: Saint Paul I'm not...
...The thought of a terrorist on the loose with such a weapon is a nightmare...
...Commonweal, 15 Dutch St...
...New York, N.Y...
...I didn't really see "the tide," of prove, even to me, that the universe really is friendly, or full course...
...knowledge, or even of my knowledge...
...If for no other reason than to deter someone else's use of them, they are Production Editor: Jacqueline Dowdell Senior Writer: Robert G. Hoyt here to stay, at least for the foreseeable future...
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...and the further period during which ing to enter into a comprehensive test ban treaty, as the U.S...
...The or the jogging track, scurrying for the bus stop, ambling back IAEA's entire yearly budget remains a paltry $60 million, far from shopping, alone or in pairs, gossiping ("I think she's pregbelow the cost of a single U.S...
...As Charles Krauthammer has observed (Washington Stage: Gerald Weales Post, July 16), since it is absurd to pretend that nuclear weapons don't matter, wouldn't Poetry: Rosemary Deen Columnists: John Garvey, J. Bryan Hehir, it be folly to let ours "rust," to allow them to become unreliable by refusing to test Abigail McCarthy, David R. Carlin, Jr...
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