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Saturday, June 12, 2010

Joan Hinton, Physicist Who Chose China Over Atom Bomb, Is Dead at 88




Ms. Hinton worked on the Manhattan Project, which developed the atom bomb, but spent most of her life as a committed Maoist working on dairy farms in China.
Labels: Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong, nuclear weapons
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