The rise of nuclear fear / Spencer R. Weart.

Author/creator Weart, Spencer R., 1942-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoCambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,
Descriptionix, 367 p. ; 24 cm.
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Subjects

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 311-352) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2011035170
ISBN9780674052338 (alk. paper)