The power of silence
Felicity Mellor explains why today's physicists need time and space to think
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Personal reflections on Plutopia
This month's physicsworld.com podcast touched a nerve with our reviews editor
Plutonium’s toxic legacy
Exploring the hidden histories of the American and Soviet "atomic cities" with Kate Brown, author of Plutopia
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Plutopia forever
Alexei Kojevnikov reviews a book about the toxic legacy and complex history of the American and Soviet plutonium programmes
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Alices in a nuclear Wonderland
Historian Kate Brown reviews the fascinating but incomplete story of women who worked at the Oak Ridge uranium-processing plant during the Second World War
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A question of responsibility
A talk on weapons proliferation at the 2014 AAAS meeting takes an unexpected turn
NSA keys into quantum computing
Jon Cartwright looks at what progress the US National Security Agency has made in cracking quantum cryptography codes
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Between the lines
Books about the physics community in Nazi Germany, the roots of radio astronomy and a whole lot of nothing, reviewed by Margaret Harris
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Wrong turns and dead ends
Len Fisher reviews a book about the mistakes made by great scientists throughout history, including Darwin, Kelvin and Einstein
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Livermore slashes 10 per cent of workforce
Final 2014 budget to still face "uphill battle in Congress this summer"
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