"Working in a field hospital outside of a nuclear,contaminated zone is a little different than working in a combat zone in Iraq or Afghanistan."
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Mr. NICHOLAS BURNS (U.S. Under Secretary of State): It's going to be very important that India and Pakistan restrain any sense of competition in the nuclear weapons field.
They had chosen the career of nuclear engineering when this was a red hot field for people of scientific bent, just as nanotechnology or biotechnology might be today.