Upon coming into office, the anti-nuclear zealots put into senior Administration posts in the Department of Energy, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, State and Defense Departments, Office of Science and Technology Policy and National Security Council saw to it that the United States would forego any further testing.

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But nobody, the government now says, thought to mention Sandline's activities, or the investigation, to a foreign secretary known throughout his department for having put control of arms sales at the centre of his newly ethical foreign policy.

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It is enough to make a cynic believe that the State Department hopes to somehow smooth the way for arms control agreements and the blossoming of a new detente by allowing the Soviets undisciplined access to Western financial resources.

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