The Price of Peace

National Research Council, Review and Evaluation of Alternative Chemical Disposal Technologies (Washington, DC National Academy Press, 1996) Tony Freemantle, The Price of Peace The World Struggles to Purge the Poison after a Cold War Chemical Weapons Binge , Houston Chronicle (23 November 1997). 

Tony Freemantle, The Price of Peace A Noble Cause with Serious Flaws , Houston Chronicle (23 November 1997). 

Freemantle, The Price of Peace Lois R. Ember, Destroying Weapons , Chemical Engineering News 8 (1 September 2003), p. 26 Lois R. Ember, Destroying VX Army s Plan to Erase Nerve Agent Stocks in Indiana Runs into Roadblocks , Chemical Engineering News 82 (12 April 2004), pp. 28-29. 

Between 1950 and 1960 uranium transactions were carried out mainly for military purposes and at prices of the order of 10/lb UsOs. Between 1960 and 1972 the price of uranium dropped to 6/lb as a result of the reduced demand for uranium for military purposes and only limited demand for peaceful uses. The 1973 oil crisis caused the price of uranium to soar to 24/lb in 1974. The price of uranium continued to rise from 1974 to 1979, when it reached more than 40/lb. The sharp decline in the demand for uranium, owing to the well-known difficulties in carrying out nuclear programmes, has meant that during the last few years the price of uranium has fallen to less than 40/lb ( 30/lb on the European market). The future uranium market will, of course, be influenced by a series of factors, such as orders for new reactors, stockpiling, uranium and plutonium recycling, increased production capacity and the appearance on the market of new producer countries. 

Also, increased tungsten demand originating from peaceful industrial booms leads to price maxima and, correspondingly, recessions lead to minima. The historical maximum reached in 1977 was the eonsequence of increased consumption. 

A man of the Byzantines who had beo) a prisoner (rf the Muslims caught up with Heraclius. Heraclius said to him "Inform me about these people." The man said "I diall tell you, and it will be as if you yoursdf were loddng at them. They are horsemen during the day and monks at night- In the area under their responsibility they do not eat except for a price and do not enter a house except with a greeting of peace. They staiul up to those who fight them until they... 

Beriberi In The Philippines. The experimental program of rice enrichment in the Philippines was singularly appropriate for the reason that it was in the Philippines, in 1910, that Dr. Robert R. Williams attention was first focused on the beriberi problem, and it was there that he found the clue which started him on the 25-year search that culminated in the first successful synthesis of thiamin (vitamin B-1) in 1935. This paved the way for its commercial manufacture on a scale that would within a few years lower the price to the point where enrichment of cereal grains would be economically feasible. By 1946, when peace had come and the Philippine experiment could be... 

I. King and W. Mason, Peace at Any Price, How the World Failed Kosovo, C. Hurst Co., 2006, pp. 36-38 (describing the circumstances leading up to the 1990 Kosovar Albanian Unilateral Declaration of Independence, and the lack of any significant effect in the world community of this first attempt at independence by the Kosovar Albanians). 

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