Taking serious risks seriously

Sheldon L. Glashow () and Richard Wilson ()
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Sheldon L. Glashow: Harvard University
Richard Wilson: Harvard University

Nature, 1999, vol. 402, issue 6762, 596-597

Abstract: Could a particle accelerator destroy the world? Fears that the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven in the United States could trigger an unforeseen disaster have been allayed by two studies that show the risk of worldwide catastrophe to be truly negligible.

Date: 1999
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