The Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium: a Comparison of Three Narrative Contexts
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The Nonproliferation Review/Winter 1998 20 Alexandra von Meier, who received her Ph.D. in Energy and Resources from U.C. Berkeley in 1995, is an Associate Specialist at the Center for Nuclear and Toxic Waste Management. Jennifer Miller is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Rhetoric, and Ann Keller is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science, all at the University of California, Berkeley. THE DISPOSITION OF EXCESS WEAPONS PLUTONIUM: A COMPARISON OF THREE NARRATIVE CONTEXTS
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