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December 10, 1973

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II-THE CURVE OF BINDING ENERGY

John McPhee

PROFILE of nuclear physicist Theodore B. Taylor. He was a conceptual designer of nuclear bombs at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory from 1949 to 1956. He …