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Nature 428, 121-122 (11 March 2004) | doi:10.1038/428121a

High-tech cluster bombs

Scott Wallsten1

  1. Scott Wallsten is a fellow at the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, 1150 17th St. NW, Washington DC 20036, USA, and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
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