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The latest Soviet proposals on nuclear weapons may let negotiators negotiate. But Britain and France must decide how and when their missiles will be counted. And President Reagan must change his style.
Italian science, to which the following twenty pages are devoted, is a curious amalgam of ingenuity and muddle and as such a reflection of the political system under which Italy labours.
Defining time in relatively moving frames of reference so as to preserve the commonsense notion of simultaneity is possible, but only at an unacceptable price.
