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OPEC's meeting earlier this week will not have restored to the oil producers their lost dominance. Nothing can do that. But Britain and the United States should impart realism to their oil policies.
Calculations of the effects of nuclear explosions over London suggest that the proportion and absolute number of radiation fatalities are higher than previously estimated. They are sensitive to the value of LD50 assumed for people, but the number of total casualties, deaths plus injuries, is practically independent of the LD50.
Britain's problem, whether to pull out of high-energy physics, would be solved if there were a moratorium on machine-building. Astronomy is in the same case.
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