The rise of nuclear fear / Spencer R. Weart.
| Author/creator | Weart, Spencer R., 1942- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, |
| Description | ix, 367 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| 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 note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-352) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2011035170 |
| ISBN | 9780674052338 (alk. paper) |