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Tue 04 Apr 2009The threat from proliferation
The CINEMA of the 1950s gave us a Ruritanian State by the name of the Duchy of Grand Fenwick, the “smallest and least progressive country in the world” whose rulers decided that global super-powers would pay it a lot more attention if it made a move into space technology. A rocket was duly fired towards the moon.
It would be tempting to equate the antics of the bankrupt and bizarre regime of North Korea’s Kim Jong Il with a comedy film. But unfortunately last Sunday’s rocket launch marks a disturbing escalation of the risk of nuclear proliferation.
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