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Quenching the wild wells of Kuwait

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The last of the hundreds of oil-well fires left in Kuwait by Iraq should be capped this week. Although progress has been remarkable, a mechanism is needed to cope with future large-scale disasters.

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  1. IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, PO Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York, 10598, USA

    Richard L. Garwin

  2. Department of Physics, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139, USA

    Henry W. Kendall

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Garwin, R., Kendall, H. Quenching the wild wells of Kuwait. Nature 354, 11–14 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1038/354011a0

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