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The past few weeks of dispute about financial policies have confirmed Britain's posture as the odd man out of Europe. Perhaps that is what the British really want.
The now celebrated report by Dr J. Benveniste and colleagues elsewhere is found, by a visiting Nature team, to be an insubstantial basis for the claims made for them.
Sea-launched cruise missiles are outside the scope of the US–Soviet treaty on intermediate-range nuclear forces. The consequences for the next step in arms control will be far-reaching.