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William Broad

William Broad is on the staff of the New York Times and is co-author with Nicholas Wade of Betrayal and Truth: Fraud and Deception in the Halls of Science.

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The Scientists of Star Wars

William Broad

‘Until 1980 or so I didn't want to have anything to do with nuclear anything. Back in those days I thought there was something fundamentally evil about weapons. Now I see it as an interesting physics problem.’

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