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November 1983 Issue
November 1983 Cover
This magazine has been fully digitized as a part of The Atlantic's archive. Each article originally printed in this magazine is available here, complete and unedited from the historical print. Read more from this magazine, or explore the full archive.
  • Immigration: How It’s Affecting Us
    James Fallows
  • The Wish
    Ellen Bryant Voigt
  • Fats Waller and Al Capone
    Nancy Caldwell Sorel
  • Real Seasons
    Mindy Pennybacker
  • The Fragility of Domestic Energy
    Amory B. Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins
  • The Attila Tapes
    Bruce McCall

The Fragility of Domestic Energy

Our complex, interdependent systems for the production and delivery of energy are vulnerable to simple but devastating acts of sabotage

By Amory B. Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins
November 1983 Issue
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