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Nuke Gulf Oil? Can Explosives Stop the Spill?

Christopher Brownfield says explosives could be the key to stanching the flow, but the geologists working for Big Oil might be standing in the way.

Christopher Brownfield
Christopher Brownfield
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A clean-up worker picks up blobs of oil in absorbent snare near the Gulf of Mexico in Plaquemines Parish, La., Friday, June 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Christopher Brownfield

Christopher Brownfield

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