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Doomsday Pattern
Atomic bombs smell like a waterfall. You can get some radiation out with soap and water. Oh, and nothing is safe.
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The St. Louis Suburbs Bear the Cost of America’s Nuclear Past
After toxic waste from the Manhattan Project was illegally dumped in 1974, rare illnesses have effected the local population.
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On the Difference Between ‘Technical’ and ‘Tactical’ Spies
Why then does the American public still consider all spies to be demons? Why does the public make no distinction between technical spies like Julius Rosenberg stealing useful knowledge and tactical spies like Kim Philby destroying human lives? Perhaps it is because the American public is misled by the American secrecy system. The secrecy system is a bureaucratic monster that classifies vast quantities of information as secret, making it impossible for the ordinary citizen to see the difference between important and unimportant secrets.
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Which would be worse: Iran developing a nuclear weapon, or waging a war to prevent it? An examination of both scenarios: Given the momentousness of such an endeavor and how much prominence the Iranian nuclear issue has been given, one might think that talk about exercising the military option would be backed up by extensive […]