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Corrections and clarifications

The expression "Strangelovian" (Editorial, March 10, 2006, page 10) sent a reader to the dictionary and search the web, trying to "infer the meaning and make sense of it". It is derived from the 1964 Stanley Kubrick film "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", that satirises the fragile nature of the Cold War conflict and the doctrine of mutually assured destruction, in which each side is supposed to take comfort in the fact that a nuclear war would be a cataclysmic disaster. The film was based on the paperback novel "Red Alert" (1958) by Peter George, who collaborated on the screenplay with Kubrick and satirist Terry Southern. "Red Alert" was more solemn by far — Dr. Strangelove is not a character in it — but the plot and the technical elements were similar.

Fourteen of the 22 thermal power reactors will come under safeguards, we said ("This is what we were looking for: Kakodkar," page 1, March 10, 2006). A reader asks whether thermal plants require safeguards. The key word here is reactor, which implies nuclear. All thermal plants do not have reactors. A thermal power reactor, the official term, is a nuclear plant.

Which American city will host the 2010 Winter Olympic Games was the question in Young World Quiz (March 10, 2006). Vancouver was the answer. The city happens to be in Canada, a reader points out. But isn't Canada in the Americas?

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