Chiral symmetry in nuclei

Effective field theory is considered to provide a highly useful framework f or connecting nuclear physics with the symmetries and dynamics of the under lying theory of strong interactions, QCD. Of many issues that are of great current interest in this domain, I concentrate here on two: (1) A new class of ab initio calculations of observables in two-nucleon systems; (2) Attem pts to extend chiral perturbation calculations to higher-order terms.