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Military history: Dinner at the Fission Chips

Mark Peplow assesses a chronicle of the blighted US and Soviet communities that fuelled the nuclear arms race.

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Peplow, M. Military history: Dinner at the Fission Chips. Nature 495, 444–445 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/495444a

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