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.
Subjects:
Nuclear energy > History.
Nuclear energy > Psychological aspects.
Antinuclear movement > History.
Radiation > Public opinion > History.
Online Access:Book review (H-Net)
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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