Recent successes in {\it ab initio} calculations of light nuclei (A=2-6) will be reviewed and correlated with the dynamical consequences of chiral symmetry. The tractability of nuclear physics evinced by these results is evidence for that symmetry. The relative importance of three-nucleon forces, four-nucleon forces, multi-pion exchanges, and relativistic corrections will be discussed in the context of effective field theories and dimensional power counting. Isospin violation in the nuclear force will also be discussed in this context.

Invited talk at 15th European Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, Penyiscola, Spain, June 5-9, 1995 -- 12 pages, latex, 3 figures -- To appear in Few-Body Systems Suppl. -- epsfig.sty and fbssuppl.sty required