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Isotopes and identity: Australia and the nuclear weapons option, 1949–1999

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  • I would most of all like to thank the many Australian academics, scientists, policymakers, and archivists who helped me gather the empirical data for this article. Thanks also to Ross Babbage, Michael Barletta, Jorge I. Dominguez, Stanley Hoffmann, Alastair Iain Johnston, Jeffrey Knopf, Aaron Lobel, Morris Low, Bill Pritchett, Stephen Rosen, Albino Santos, Michael Tomz, Jim Walsh, and two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on a draft of this paper. Special thanks to Jim Walsh for allowing me to review documents he collected in Australia. Field research in Australia was underwritten by the Institute for the Study of World Politics, Washington, DC. Additional funding was provided by the Krupp Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the Harvard National Scholarships Office. Of course I take full responsibility for any errors herein. This article is dedicated to the memory of my father.

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