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to develop nuclear weapons during the Second World War but became vehemently opposed to them after seeing their effects on Japan. The
Pugwash movement was a group of scientists who campaigned for nuclear disarmament and Lindop often held meetings of Pugwashites, as they are known, at her home in
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Medical
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