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Science 8 March 1996:
Vol. 271. no. 5254, pp. 1355 - 1356
DOI: 10.1126/science.271.5254.1355b
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News & Comment

Jonathan Weisman

Oakland, California--As part of a major reorganization on the Department of Energy's nuclear weapons complex, Los Alamos National Laboratory will gain responsibility for making plutonium "pits," or triggers, for hydrogen bombs. It will be the first time in more than 4 decades that the lab has been involved in weapons manufacturing rather than research, and it is causing some to worry that scarce dollars could be diverted from science to production.




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