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Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958–1978

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Catalogue notice

“Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958–1978” is catalogued in Crown Archives’ open-reference index. The complete reference text is available from the original source linked below.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958–1978” is open encyclopedia entry. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Critical, Masses and Opposition, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1958, 1978—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Critical, Masses and Opposition is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “open encyclopedia entry” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The first chronological checks are 1958 and 1978.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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This catalogue route points to “Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958–1978” on English Wikipedia. The source page should be consulted before relying on this record. When present, Wikipedia text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.