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Daniel Ford

Daniel Ford , the former executive director of the Union of Concerned Scientists, began contributing to the magazine in 1979, with his assessments of the Three Mile Island accident of the same year.

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8 picks · 1981–1988

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CROWN OF THORNS
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the Great Barrier Reef & the threat to it from coral-eating crown of thorns starfish. The Reef stretches down the northeastern …

REBIRTH OF A NATION
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REPORTER AT LARGE about restructuring the Soviet economy by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. He took office in Mar., 1985 & announced the following Feb. …

II-THE BUTTON
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the U.S. command & control system. The Pentagon has contingency plans for using nuclear weapons despite public statements saying …

I-THE BUTTON
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the U.S. command & control system. The Pentagon has contingency plans for using nuclear weapons despite public statements saying …

II-THE CULT OF THE ATOM
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After the accident at Three Mile Island, in Mar., 1979, Pres. Carter appointed a Nuclear Safety Oversight Committee to supervise the NRC's overhauling …

I-THE CULT OF THE ATOM
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the inadequacies of nuclear plant safety.

THREE MILE ISLAND II-THE PAPER TRAIL
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the inadequacy of safety precautions in nuclear power plants and the accident on 3/28/79 at Three Mile Island. The latter is one of…

THREE MILE ISLAND I-CLASS NINE ACCIDENT
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the accident on Mar. 28, 1979, at the Three Mile Island Unit 2 nuclear power plant, ten miles southeast of Harrisburg, Pa. The …