Nuclear Issues

First published in 1978, Helen Caldicott's cri du coeur about the dangers of nuclear power became an instant classic. In the intervening sixteen ye...

Stephen M. Meyer steps back from the emotions and rhetoric surrounding the nuclear arms debates to provide a systematic examination of the underlyi...

Provides a personal yet scientific comparative study of nuclear energy and a spectrum of other energies from a reliability point of view, as well a...

As the world struggles to meet the growing international demands for electricity, green energy, and alternatives to fossil fuels, the nuclear power...

As the world struggles to meet the growing international demands for electricity, green energy, and alternatives to fossil fuels, the nuclear power...

More than a decade after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, what we are witnessing is not a Second Nuclear Age – there is no post-atomic – but...

A Stanford University Press classic.

In the past two decades young people, environmentalists, church activists, leftists, and others have mobilized against nuclear energy. Anti-nuclear...

By 6:00 a.m. on the morning of March 28, 1979, the reactor core at Three Mile Island was thirty minutes away from a meltdown, an apocalypse that wo...

This original look at the dynamics of international relations untangles the vigorous interaction of domestic and international politics on subjects...

After a tsunami destroyed the cooling system at Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, triggering a meltdown, protesters around the world challenge...

This book presents a compelling account of atomic development over the last century that demonstrates how humans have repeatedly chosen to ignore t...

What does it mean to live in a post-atomic world? Photography and contemporary art offer a provocative lens through which to comprehend the by-prod...

The development and use of nuclear power in the United States has become stalemated. After the early promise of energy too cheap to meter, public c...

For the first time, the sad story of America's uranium miners and the duplicity of our government is revealed. This expert study examines, in micro...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the ...

Three Mile Island, Seabrook, Diablo Canyon: their controversies have come to symbolize the unhappy fate of American nuclear power. Three decades of...

The proliferation of advanced weapons to volatile regions of the world has become a major issue in the post Cold War era. It was thought that no Th...

The proliferation of advanced weapons to volatile regions of the world has become a major issue in the post Cold War era. It was thought that no Th...

Are the nuclear industry's efforts to prepare the public during emergency situations adequate? This study critiques risk communication programs and...

In this study of the nuclear theme in Japanese intellectual and artistic life, John Whittier Treat argues that we have much to learn from Japanese ...

The near meltdown in 1979 at Three Mile Island, America, plunged the nuclear power industry into a crisis of confidence that threatened its very ex...

In this study of the nuclear theme in Japanese intellectual and artistic life, John Whittier Treat argues that we have much to learn from Japanese ...

This is a look at the world of political conflict surrounding the Commonwealth Edison Company's ambitious nuclear power plant construction programm...

This is a look at the world of political conflict surrounding the Commonwealth Edison Company's ambitious nuclear power plant construction programm...

The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August, 1945, unleashed a force as mysterious as it was deadly. In 1946, the Atomic Bomb Casu...

The future is no more, and eternity has begun.It's 1986 and a nuclear reactor has exploded in Chernobyl. Syvert Løyning returns home from military ...

Many lament the difficulty of siting hazardous waste facilities that are intended to benefit the public at large but are locally unwanted. Many lab...

Why did nuclear energy policies in France, Sweden, and the United States, very similar at the time of the oil crisis of 1973 and 1974, diverge so g...

At a moment when a new generation of power stations and weapons are being developed, Fallout is a measured and fascinating exploration of our most ...