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Russia Pours Billions in Oil Profits Into Nanotech Race

Wired: Back in the mid-1980s, a joke made the rounds that the Kremlin was preparing a major announcement: After a decade-long top-secret crash program, socialist science had succeeded in building the world's largest microprocessor.

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