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Christine Keiner, chair of the Department of Science, Technology, and Society, spoke with the New Books Network about her book Deep Cut: Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal. The book addresses the Cold War-era technoscientific, environmental, and diplomatic debates about building a sea-level canal across Central America with peaceful nuclear explosives.
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