I'm old enough to have played ping-pong in the MIT Student Center with Iranian grad students bought to MIT by a Cheney-Kissinger program to train Iranian scientists in
WAIT FOR IT....
DRUM ROLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nuclear engineering.
They were lovely folks, smart kids, and included at least one woman.
(This was well before the 1979 revolution, of course.)
David, a Bostonian in Tokyo.
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