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Science 17 March 2006:
Vol. 311. no. 5767, p. 1556
DOI: 10.1126/science.1124932
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APPLIED PHYSICS:
Dr. Strangelove Moves Mountains

Hugh Gusterson

Proving Grounds
Project Plowshare and the Unrealized Dream of Nuclear Earthmoving
by Scott Kirsch
Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, 2005. 272 pp. $39.95. ISBN 0-8135-3666-9.
The author explores the two-decades-long efforts of Edward Teller and others to promote the use of nuclear explosions to construct canals, dams, harbors, and quarries.
The reviewer is at the Department of Anthropology and the Program in Science, Technology, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. E-mail: guster{at}mit.edu

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