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Atoms and Ashes: The World’s Six Major Nuclear Accidents and Their Aftershocks
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The Apollo Missions Were Driven More by Politics Than Science
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How a Wartime Disaster Led to the Invention of Chemotherapy
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Apollo 11's Political Journey to the Moon
Ahead of the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, two authors explore the unusual confluence of politics, technology, and luck that got us there.
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Science as a Cold War Propaganda Tool
In 'Freedom's Laboratory'," the historian Audra J. Wolfe explores the entanglement of science and politics during the Cold War.
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The Uneasy Alliance Between Astrophysics and Warfare
In their book 'Accessory to War', Neil deGrasse Tyson and Avis Lang explore the longtime partnership of science and the military and its long and often fraught history.
For ‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’ the Liftoff Was Anything but Smooth
Michael Benson's new book takes us back to 1968, an obsessive director and his magnum opus, and an opening-night audience that didn't get it at all.
