LOW SALARIES MAY LEAD NUCLEAR SCIENTISTS TO WORK ABROAD. A
study prepared by Valentin Tikhonov for the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace that was released this week
said that nuclear and missile scientists now earn so little
from their regular jobs that they must take part time
positions and that many of them might consider either selling
nuclear materials in their possession to foreign governments
or hiring themselves out to those governments, AP reported on
1 May. Such a "brain drain," the study concludes, could lead
to the proliferation of nuclear and missile technologies. PG
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