SERIOUS THOUGHT"
“Last week, The Guardian canvassed the idea that both Egypt and Israel were trying to make nuclear devices. Quickly, various ,experts corrected the impression that any such development was im-minent, It was, they reassured us, several years off.
"However, nobody hag denied that these two States can =~ financially. and technically -- make a nuclear bang within the next 10 years.or go, And it is, of course, even easier for India, China, .South Africa and several other States with an industrial base to do the same, Indeed, most of the above-named States can already be overheard making audible moves towards becoming nuclear,
~"So this means that by the time a five-year-old child is 15 we can expect him to be living in a changed world. By then, all the conflicts of all industrial Powers may be accompanied by the threat to use nuclear explosions, As more and more countries are becoming industrialised and as, in the ballistic conditions of today, Asia, Africa and Latin America are the strategic equivalent of the Balkans of 50 years ago, this is a serious thought." -- From an editorial in the May 10 London Observer entitled "Tick-Tick- Tick,
Directeur-G6érant: Pierre FRANK. L'éditeur),