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Jasanoff, S., Gordin, M.D., Jewett, A. et al. A Splintered Function: Fate, Faith, and the Father of the Atomic Bomb. Metasci 17, 351–387 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-008-9214-1
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