West Germany and France to sell nuclear fuel facilities to Brazil and Pakistan may mark the collapse of American hopes for halting nuclear weapons proliferation. Why? The plants and technology required to en- rich uranium and reprocess plutonium for use as fuel in nuclear power plants can also produce material for atomic bombs.
Writing in Foreign Affairs, Senator Abraham A. Ribicoff urges the United States to persuade other nuclear exporters to control future uranium enrichment and plutonium reproc-...