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Dismantle Armageddon

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A Distant Light

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On May 30, the United States and Russia will no longer aim their strategic missiles at each other. A missile fired accidentally and flying under its own normal motor power and guidance would fall short of its cold-war target, landing instead in the Arctic Ocean.

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Kendall, H.W. (2000). Dismantle Armageddon. In: Kendall, H.W. (eds) A Distant Light. Masters of Modern Physics, vol 0. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8507-1_15

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