The rise of nuclear fear
Title:
The rise of nuclear fear
Author:
Weart, Spencer R., 1942-
ISBN:
9780674052338
Publication Information:
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012
Physical Description:
ix, 367 p. ; 24 cm
General Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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.
Subject:
| Nuclear energy -- History |
| Nuclear energy -- Psychological aspects |
| Antinuclear movement -- History |
| Radiation -- Public opinion -- History |