The Washington Post, October 27th, 1988
SINCE THE beginning of nuclear energy, this country has kept the civilian power system scrupulously separate from military weapons production. Now, with all of the weapons reactors shut down indefinitely for safety reasons, an old idea is beginning to recirculate: How about making weapons with one of the mothballed reactors, never completed, that was begun by the Washington Public Power Supply System? That's a dangerously bad idea. For four decades this country has worked hard, and effectively, to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons throughout the world. One of the basic rules is to keep the...
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