Two recent nuclear power deals raise the specter of a worldwide atomic race among nations which have up to now been excluded from the nuclear club. The Soviet Union has agreed to provide the hard-line Libyan regime of Colonel Muammar Quaddafi with a nuclear research center, including a reactor. And the West German government plans to build a nuclear power plant in Brazil with a "complete fuel cycle" system, which makes conversion to nuclear weapons relatively easy, even though Brazil, under pressure from both Bonn and Washington, especially the latter, has "pledged" to limit the production of the new facility to peaceful uses.
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