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Also Known As	anti-nuclear movement

Topics

nuclear weapon nuclear power social movement democracy anarchism socialism liberalism communism libertarianism secularism nationalism Pan-Africanism abolitionism

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Caldicott, Helen Broinowski

Helen Caldicott

American physician

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