TY  - BOOK
AU  - Weart,Spencer R.
TI  - The rise of nuclear fear
SN  - 9780674052338 (alk. paper)
AV  - QC773 .W44 2012
U1  - 621.48 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Nuclear energy
KW  - History
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Antinuclear movement
KW  - Radiation
KW  - Public opinion
N1  - 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
UR  - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=35709
ER  -