Who’s next?
Experts worry about East Asia and the Middle East
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N MARCH 1963 President John Kennedy lamented his failure to negotiate a ban on nuclear tests. “Personally,” he warned, “I am haunted by the feeling that by 1970, unless we are successful, there may be ten nuclear powers instead of four and by 1975, 15 or 20.”
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Kennedy was wrong. While many countries explored the idea of nuclear weapons from the 1950s to the 1990s, comparatively few took the next step of actually trying to develop the ability to build them (see chart). Of those few some stopped because the country itself dissolved (Yugoslavia), some because of changes to domestic politics (Brazil), some because of pressure from allies (South Korea) and some through force of arms (Iraq).
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Another GSK vaccine exec jumps ship for biotech CEO role
GlaxoSmithKline
Amir Reichman is stepping down.
Reichman is leaving his post as head of global vaccines engineering core technology at GSK to eventually head up operations at BiondVax Pharmaceuticals. Reichman will split duties with BiondVax’s founder and CEO Ron Babecoff until March 2 as he wraps his time at GSK. Reichman joined GSK in 2015 as part of a multibillion-dollar deal that saw GSK trade off its oncology assets for Novartis’ vaccines unit. Reichman held various positions at Novartis in its vaccine supply chain unit before becoming director of GSK’s global vaccines supply chain and then head of global vaccines engineering
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