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The Rise of Nuclear Fear.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (381 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674065062
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Rise of Nuclear FearDDC classification:
  • 621.48
LOC classification:
  • QC773
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Radioactive Hopes -- 2. Radioactive Fears -- 3. Radium: Elixir or Poison? -- 4. The Secret, the Master, and the Monster -- 5. The Destroyer of Worlds -- 6. The News from Hiroshima -- 7. National Defenses -- 8. Atoms for Peace -- 9. Good and Bad Atoms -- 10. The New Blasphemy -- 11. Death Dust -- 12. The Imagination of Survival -- 13. The Politics of Survival -- 14. Seeking Shelter -- 15. Fail/Safe -- 16. Reactor Promises and Poisons -- 17. The Debate Explodes -- 18. Energy Choices -- 19. Civilization or Liberation? -- 20. Watersheds -- 21. The Second Nuclear Age -- 22. Deconstructing Nuclear Weapons -- 23. Tyrants and Terrorists -- 24. The Modern Arcanum -- 25. Artistic Transmutations -- A Personal Note -- Nuclear History Timeline -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Index.
Summary: After the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant had a meltdown, protesters around the world challenged nuclear power. Climate change has never aroused this visceral dread. Weart dissects this paradox, showing that powerful images surrounding nuclear energy hold us captive, allowing fear, rather than facts, to drive our thinking and public policy.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Radioactive Hopes -- 2. Radioactive Fears -- 3. Radium: Elixir or Poison? -- 4. The Secret, the Master, and the Monster -- 5. The Destroyer of Worlds -- 6. The News from Hiroshima -- 7. National Defenses -- 8. Atoms for Peace -- 9. Good and Bad Atoms -- 10. The New Blasphemy -- 11. Death Dust -- 12. The Imagination of Survival -- 13. The Politics of Survival -- 14. Seeking Shelter -- 15. Fail/Safe -- 16. Reactor Promises and Poisons -- 17. The Debate Explodes -- 18. Energy Choices -- 19. Civilization or Liberation? -- 20. Watersheds -- 21. The Second Nuclear Age -- 22. Deconstructing Nuclear Weapons -- 23. Tyrants and Terrorists -- 24. The Modern Arcanum -- 25. Artistic Transmutations -- A Personal Note -- Nuclear History Timeline -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Index.

After the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant had a meltdown, protesters around the world challenged nuclear power. Climate change has never aroused this visceral dread. Weart dissects this paradox, showing that powerful images surrounding nuclear energy hold us captive, allowing fear, rather than facts, to drive our thinking and public policy.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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