The scientific communities of the USSR and the US have been active both in developing new weapons and in attempting to curb the arms race, or at least in trying to prevent it from leading to the ultimate catastrophe. Scientists on the two sides have worked sometimes independently and sometimes with a degree of interaction, direct or indirect.

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For a rebuttal, see G. H. Miller, P. S. Brown, C. T. Alonso, “Report to Congress on Stockpile Reliability, Weapon Remanufacture and the Role of Nuclear Testing,” report no. UCRL‐53822, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, Calif. (October 1987).
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