The nuclear news from January 1981, taken from the 'Spotlight' section of that month's Protect and Survive Monthly magazine.

SPOTLIGHT, Part 2

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The beauty contest which took place in Nagasaki in 1946, and what it tells us about public perception of the Bomb.

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