The past year and a half has been a volatile one for India, starting with a violent gang rape case in December 2012 that rocked the nation into an angry fury.
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Plutonium Pits: Orbs From Hell
A plutonium pit, in which a nuclear chain reaction is ignited, is the living, beating heart of a nuclear warhead. Locus of the most potential energy on earth, it’s the closest mankind has ever come to producing a devil in a bottle. Fire and brimstone, if you will, concentrated to a fare-thee-well in an orb the size of a grapefruit. In 2005, David Samuels wrote for Discover magazine:
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Appropriating Ambedkar
Dr B.R. Ambedkar was an Indian revolutionary, a statesman, a scholar, a visionary, a civil rights activist, a political leader and a jurist. He was a student of history and economics at Columbia University, New York, where he received his PhD in 1917. He later read law at the London School of Economics and Grays Inn, London, where he qualified as a Bar-at-Law.
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