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NUCLEAR ARMS FOR
LATIN AMERICA
Atomic weapons are now within the reach of three Latin American nations-and more than two
dozen other nations around the globe!
F
OR YEARS,
the United States,
Russia, Britain, France and
China were an exclusive
club. They were insole possession
of the knowledge and technology
necessary to produce weapons of
mass destruction.
Not so today!
The "secret" of atomic and
hydrogen military technology is
no longer even remotely secret.
By 1985 the shocking fact is that
no less than 35 countries will
have the technological expertise
and the capacity to produce
nuclear weapons!
August 1980
by
Keith W. Stump
No corner of the globe will be
safe from the specter of cataclys–
mic destruction.
Prophesied Anciently
Nearly 3,000 years ago the prophet
Joel spoke of this very time. A time
when the relatively weaker nations
of the globe-weaker economically
and in conventional military
strength- would emerge as for–
midable powers.
"Proclaim ye this among the
Gentiles," wrote Joel, " ... let
the weak say, I am strong" (J oel
3:9-10).
Here is a prophecy for the end
times, a time when "the day of
the Lord is near" (verse 14) . This
prophecy of the economically
weaker nations becoming st rong
could never have come to pass
before our day. Now, for the first
time in history, it is possible
for nations to divert their re–
sources not into conventional ar–
mies, but into nuclear weapons!
BRAZILIAN REACTOR,
above, under
construction at /taorna beach south of
Rio de Janeiro,
wi/1
be that country's
first nuclear plant.
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