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The rise of nuclear fear /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weart, Spencer R., 1942-
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c2012.
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Online Access:Book review (H-Net)
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300 |a ix, 367 p. ;  |c 24 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-352) and index. 
505 0 |a Radioactive hopes -- Radioactive fears -- Radium : elixir or poison? -- The secret, the master, and the monster -- The destroyer of worlds -- The news from Hiroshima -- National defenses -- Atoms for peace -- Good and bad atoms -- The new blasphemy -- Death dust -- The imagination of survival -- The politics of survival -- Seeking shelter -- Fail/safe -- Reactor promises and poisons -- The debate explodes -- Energy choices -- Civilization or liberation? -- Watersheds -- The second nuclear age -- Deconstructing nuclear weapons -- Tyrants and terrorists -- The modern arcanum -- Artistic transmutations. 
650 0 |a Nuclear energy  |x History. 
650 0 |a Nuclear energy  |x Psychological aspects. 
650 0 |a Antinuclear movement  |x History. 
650 0 |a Radiation  |x Public opinion  |x History. 
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