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Non-proliferation: School of Nukes

Nature volume 449, pages 656–657 (2007)Cite this article

How do nuclear inspectors know when all is not as they are told? Geoff Brumfiel joins some inspectors-in-training as they learn the ropes at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

At half-past eight in the morning, the New Mexico sun already hot on our necks, we gather outside what could be the entrance of a high-security prison. Past the guard post and fence lies a tan, windowless building that covers about a city block. Gill-like vents along the building's side give it the look of a leviathan beached unnaturally in the high desert.

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