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But almost as soon as he had experienced this Cinderella-like reversal of fortune, Soutine developed second thoughts about his work up to that point and tried to destroy as much of it as he could get his hands on.
It seems that last month, at a naval base near Murmansk, a 19-year-old sailor killed eight crewmen aboard a nuclear submarine and took control of the vessel for twenty hours, repeatedly threatening to destroy it, creating the potential for what one scientist quoted in the LAT calls a "floating Chernobyl."
On the NYT op-ed page, former Reagan administration diplomat Paul H. Nitze argues that America should unilaterally destroy its nuclear weapons.
"Hitler wanted to destroy the Jews, and indeed he destroyed them," he explained.
Hence, the immunotherapy tested herein would have to destroy all neoplastic foci to affect a complete cure, which is perhaps too much to expect; our view is that the stringency of this system has advantages as a readout for therapeutic strategies, in the observed efficacy may be more predictive of responses in the clinic that those observed with subcutaneous tumors.