"Nuclear weapons, since their conception, have been the subject of secrecy. In the months after the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the

background needed to make informed choices about nuclear technologies, introducing concepts that can be used for evaluating the claims of both proponents and op

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