How can you detect a bomb if it is so sensitive that even looking at it will make it explode? A new study suggests that you might not have to, Jeremy Thomson reports.
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Thomson, J. No hiding place for quantum bombs. Nature (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/news000420-5
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