  A relativistic light front treatment of nuclei is developed by performing
light front quantization for a chiral Lagrangian. The energy momentum tensor
and the appropriate Hamiltonian are obtained. Three illustrations of the
formalism are made. (1) Pion-nucleon scattering at tree level is shown to
reproduce soft pion theorems. (2) The one boson exchange treatment of
nucleon-nucleon scattering is developed and shown (by comparison with previous
results of the equal time formulation) to lead to a reasonable description of
nucleon-nucleon phase shifts. (3) The mean field approximation is applied to
infinite nuclear matter, and the plus momentum distributions of that system are
studied. The mesons are found to carry a significant fraction of the plus
momentum, but are inaccessible to experiments.
