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Miss Atom 2009

It’s February so it’s time for the Wonk’s perennial favourite… Miss Atom: the beauty contest for workers in the Russian nuclear industry.

For those of you who are new readers: check out the 2008 and 2007 posts for the backstory.

James Acton

Writing on ACW 2007–2010

James M. Acton is co-director of the Nuclear Policy Program and senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment. A physicist by training, Acton specializes in deterrence, disarmament, nonproliferation, and nuclear energy. His current research focuses on the nuclear fuel cycle in Japan and hypersonic conventional weapons.

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