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    <div class="html-content"><span>November 15, 2014</span><div><span>A few years ago, historian </span><span>Kate Brown</span><span> spent several weeks in a tiny cottage in an obscure corner of Russia’s Ural Mountains. She was studying the history of Ozersk, a secret Soviet city built in the late 1940s to house the country’s first plutonium-processing plant.</span></div></div>
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<Summary>November 15, 2014 A few years ago, historian Kate Brown spent several weeks in a tiny cottage in an obscure corner of Russia’s Ural Mountains. She was studying the history of Ozersk, a secret...</Summary>
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