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Secret bombs in a democratic society

Alex Wellerstein: Restricted data: the history of nuclear secrecy in the United States. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2021, 549 pp, $35 HB

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  1. http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com, Accessed October 28, 2021.

  2. https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/, Accessed October 28, 2021.

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Inoue, M. Secret bombs in a democratic society. Metascience 31, 97–100 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-021-00713-5

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