Jennifer Thompson

Arthur Miller's play about the 1692 witch-trials in Salem, Massachusetts, written in 1953 at the height of the McCarthyite anti-communist crusade, has come to the big screen.

The June 13 announcement by the newly elected French president Jacques Chirac that nuclear weapons testing would be resumed at Moruroa Atoll has jeopardised the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) and increased the danger of a major radioactive leak from the atoll.