The rise of nuclear fear
By: Spencer R. Weart
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780674052338
Subjects: Nuclear engineering; Popular works; Nuclear energy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Radioactive hopes; title: Radioactive fears; title: Radium : elixir or poison?; title: The secret, the master, and the monster; title: The destroyer of worlds; title: The news from Hiroshima; title: National defenses; title: Atoms for peace; title: Good and bad atoms; title: The new blasphemy; title: Death dust; title: The imagination of survival; title: The politics of survival; title: Seeking shelter; title: Fail/safe; title: Reactor promises and poisons; title: The debate explodes; title: Energy choices; title: Civilization or liberation?; title: Watersheds; title: The second nuclear age; title: Deconstructing nuclear weapons; title: Tyrants and terrorists; title: The modern arcanum; title: Artistic transmutations.