AS the nuclear arms race escalated in the early 1950s, the US launched Atoms
for Peace, a drive to promote the good things the atom might do. Whatever you
think of nuclear power, it’s hard to deny that nuclear physics and radioisotopes
for medicine and research have been good things.
Recent alarm about biological weapons may now give us a similar opportunity.
We could call it germs for peace. Bioweapons have yet to produce a Hiroshima, or
even a small atrocity (that we know of). But some demented people have tried
them, and more are likely to. So countries…
