Coming out of the Microsoft monopoly era and posing as a counter to the Apple model, Google is averse to actually selling anything outright.

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That is a lot better than nothing, at least for nuclear fallout (for which the model was first developed): there the case for being safe not sorry is overwhelming, and once the fallout has fallen, a Geiger counter will tell you whether the model's forecasts of which places would be affected have turned out to be right.

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