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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!amdahl!JUTS!outs!jjh00
  2. From: jjh00@outs.ccc.amdahl.com (Joel J. Hanes)
  3. Newsgroups: talk.environment
  4. Subject: Re: Please write for a nuclear test ban
  5. Summary: John McPhee recommended _again_
  6. Keywords: objective book
  7. Message-ID: <9dni02Qi1f8J01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
  8. Date: 26 Aug 92 21:37:31 GMT
  9. References: <1992Aug22.063249.8543@truffula.sj.ca.us> <JMC.92Aug22094640@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> <1992Aug24.210628.8892@adobe.com> <JMC.92Aug24162032@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
  10. Sender: netnews@ccc.amdahl.com
  11. Reply-To: jjh00@OUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Joel J. Hanes)
  12. Distribution: usa
  13. Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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  15.  
  16. Readers interested in this thread may enjoy John McPhee's
  17. excellent book _The_Curve_Of_Binding_Energy_.  McPhee spent
  18. considerable time with a brilliant nuclear weapons desiger
  19. (Taylor?), and describes the national weapons lab culture
  20. and nuclear testing regimen as they existed before the
  21. end of the Cold War.
  22.  
  23. I usually find McPhee's journalism remarkable for its lack of
  24. perceptible slant -- your mileage may vary.
  25.  
  26. ---
  27. Joel Hanes
  28.