"Unfortunately,at the moment, building nuclear weapons is a given,"

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So why, you might ask, would India choose this moment to go nuclear?

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But it is not realistic to expect that the United States of America can get, at this moment, 80 percent of its energy from nuclear power -- as France does, for example -- or 30 percent of its energy from wind sources, as other countries her in Europe do.

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The moustachioed Mr Peretz, who campaigned on a social-economic platform, was a natural target for cartoonists joking about his coming moment of initiation into the state's intelligence and nuclear secrets.

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