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Swords From Plowshares: The Military Potential of Civilian Nuclear Energy

Albert Wohlstetter and others
Reviewed by Andrew J. Pierre
Spring 1980
Swords From Plowshares: The Military Potential of Civilian Nuclear Energy
Albert Wohlstetter and others
University of Chicago Press
1979
228 pp.
$5.95
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Originally released several years ago as a research project for the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency entitled "Moving Toward Life in a Nuclear Armed Crowd," this book remains a useful primer for many aspects of the nuclear proliferation problem.

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