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After Reykjavik, Reagan and Gorbachev outrageous and bold decision to wipe out nuclear weapons from the face of earth, has been an unexpected success.
With a little help from India, and with the end of Cold War in 1989, it snowballed at an astonishing speed. After South Africa, India triggered Pakistan and China nuclear disarmements, and that immediately strangled any possible nuclear proliferation to North Korea or Iran or elsewhere. France and Great Britain soon followed, leaving Israel the sole nuclear country in the planet.
Strong pressure fron the United States, together with emphasis on ABM weapons, finally win the day. Israel survival against the Arab countries switched from nuclear deterrence to ABM plus the usual strong conventional forces - air, sea, land, space based.

For Clinton it was unfortunate, however. With nuclear disarmement well on track, he found himself in the uncomfortable role of... supporting Reagan and Bush SDI, if only as an insurance against any future madman ! Clinton made ABM an international affair, though. The death of nuclear weapons released massive numbers of knowledgeable nuclear engineers, creating a very dangerous situation, notably in Russia.

The civilian nuclear industry did his best to absorb the leftover nuclear engineers and scientists, yet it needed help from the governments to do so. The answer was a civilian nuclear initiative, with research on Generation IV reactors - and fusion - accelerated. That, and a nuclear space initiative, since the Russians had an interesting piece of hardware called the Topaz.

Both NASA and the SDIO had nuclear -electric demonstrators on the drawing board. A tentative Russian - NASA - SDIO joint program was defined for the nculear space intitative. It consisted of an unmanned, nuclear-electric probe to orbit Jupiter's moon Europa, probing the icy surface with radar and hard landers.

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