The rise of nuclear fear /
Weart, Spencer R., 1942-
The rise of nuclear fear / Spencer R. Weart. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c2012. - ix, 367 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-352) and index.
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.
9780674052338 (alk. paper)
2011035170
Nuclear energy--History.
Nuclear energy--Psychological aspects.
Antinuclear movement--History.
Radiation--Public opinion--History.
QC773 / .W44 2012
621.48
The rise of nuclear fear / Spencer R. Weart. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c2012. - ix, 367 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-352) and index.
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.
9780674052338 (alk. paper)
2011035170
Nuclear energy--History.
Nuclear energy--Psychological aspects.
Antinuclear movement--History.
Radiation--Public opinion--History.
QC773 / .W44 2012
621.48