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Opinion This time, can we skip the debates and just sign the Iran Deal?
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Yiddish World The Jewish Designers of North Korea’s Hydrogen Bomb
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. The whole world was recently unnerved to learn that North Korea successfully tested a hydrogen bomb on September 3rd, 2017. According to an analysis of the seismic activity measured from the blast, North Korea’s nuclear scientists seem to be familiar with the Teller-Ulam design for thermonuclear weapons….
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