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Nature 402, 596-597 (9 December 1999) | doi:10.1038/45114
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Nuclear physics: Taking serious risks seriously
Sheldon L. Glashow1 & Richard Wilson1
Risk management is not a new idea: miners once used caged canaries as methane detectors. But modern technologies have made worldwide catastrophes imaginable — disasters so dreadful that we demand proof-in-principle that they cannot happen.
- Sheldon L. Glashow and Richard Wilson are at the Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
Correspondence to: Sheldon L. Glashow1 e-mails: Email: glashow@physics.harvard.edu
Correspondence to: Richard Wilson1 Email: wilson@physics.harvard.edu
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