  The impact of chiral symmetry on nuclear physics is discussed in the context
of recent advances in the few-nucleon systems and of dimensional power
counting. The tractability of few-nucleon calculations, illustrated by very
recent solutions for $A = 2-6$, is shown to follow from power counting based on
chiral Lagrangians. The latter predicts the suppression of $N$-body forces, as
originally shown by Weinberg. Isospin violation in the nuclear force is
similarly analyzed using the results of van Kolck, and this is shown to be
consistent with results from the Nijmegen phase-shift analysis. Conventional
$\rho - \omega$ and $\pi - \eta$ mixing models with on-shell mixing strength
are not inconsistent with naive power counting. Meson-exchange currents
calculated in chiral perturbation theory are in good agreement with experiment.
