List of books about nuclear issues

The expanding fireball from the "Badger" United States nuclear test.

The decommissioned Trojan Nuclear power plant.

President Jimmy Carter in Pennsylvania following the Three Mile Island accident in 1979

Stewart Brand at a 2010 debate, "Does the world need nuclear energy?"^[1]

Ranger Uranium Mine complex in Australia

This is a list of books about nuclear issues. They are non-fiction books which relate to uranium mining, nuclear weapons and/or nuclear power.

• Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism From Hiroshima to Al-Qaeda (2010)
• American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2005)
• Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists (1958)
• Britain, Australia and the Bomb (2006)
• Brittle Power: Energy Strategy for National Security (1982)
• Canada’s Deadly Secret: Saskatchewan Uranium and the Global Nuclear System (2007)
• Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free (2007)
• Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment (2009)
• Chernobyl. Vengeance of peaceful atom. (2006)
• Climate Gamble. Is Anti-Nuclear Activism endangering our future (2015)
• Conservation Fallout: Nuclear Protest at Diablo Canyon (2006)
• Contesting the Future of Nuclear Power (2011)
• Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958-1978 (1998)
• Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis (1971)
• Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy (2004)
• Fallout Protection (1961)
• Fukushima: Japan's Tsunami and the Inside Story of the Nuclear Meltdowns (2013)
• Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats (2012)
• Hiroshima (1946)
• Killing Our Own: The Disaster of America’s Experience with Atomic Radiation (1982)
• In Mortal Hands: A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age (2009)
• Joseph Rotblat: A Man of Conscience in the Nuclear Age (2009)
• Licensed to Kill? The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Shoreham Power Plant (1997)
• Los Alamos Primer (1992)
• Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West (1999)
• Maralinga: Australia’s Nuclear Waste Cover-up (2007)
• Megawatts and Megatons (2001)
• My Australian Story: Atomic Testing (2009)
• Non-Nuclear Futures: The Case for an Ethical Energy Strategy (1975)
• Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies (1984)
• Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico (2006)
• Nuclear Implosions: The Rise and Fall of the Washington Public Power Supply System (2008)
• Nuclear Nebraska: The Remarkable Story of the Little County That Couldn’t Be Bought (2007)
• Nuclear or Not? Does Nuclear Power Have a Place in a Sustainable Energy Future? (2007)
• Nuclear Politics in America (1997)
• Nuclear Power and the Environment (1976)
• Nuclear Power is not the Answer (2006)
• Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe (2004)
• Nuclear War Survival Skills (1979)
• Nuclear Weapons: The Road to Zero (1998)
• Nukespeak: Nuclear Language, Visions and Mindset (1982)
• On Nuclear Terrorism (2007)
• Our Friend the Atom (1957)
• Plutopia (2013)
• Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy (2007)
• Protect and Survive (1980)
• Reaction Time: Climate Change and the Nuclear Option (2007)
• Smyth Report (1945)
• Survival Under Atomic Attack (1950)
• The Angry Genie: One Man's Walk Through the Nuclear Age (1999)
• The Atom Besieged: Extraparliamentary Dissent in France and Germany (1981)
• The Bells of Nagasaki (1949)
• The Cold and the Dark: The World after Nuclear War (1984)
• The Cult of the Atom: The Secret Papers of the Atomic Energy Commission (1982)
• The Day of the Bomb (1961)
• The Doomsday Machine: The High Price of Nuclear Energy, The World's Most Dangerous Fuel (2012)
• The Fate of the Earth (1982)
• The Four Faces of Nuclear Terrorism (2004)
• The Fourth Protocol (1984)
• The Gift of Time: The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons Now (1998)
• The Hundredth Monkey (1982)
• The International Politics of Nuclear Waste (1991)
• The Last Train From Hiroshima (2010)
• The Lean Guide to Nuclear Energy: A Life-Cycle in Trouble (2007)
• The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1988)
• The Navajo People and Uranium Mining (2006)
• The Nuclear Power Controversy (1976)
• The People of Three Mile Island (1980)
• The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War (1999)
• The Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation (2006)
• The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy (1991)
• The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger (2007)
• The Strategy of Conflict (1960)
• The Truth About Chernobyl (1991)
• The Unfinished Twentieth Century (2001)
• Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective (2004)
• Three Mile Island: Thirty Minutes to Meltdown (1982)
• TORCH report (2006)
• Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb (2012)
• Uranium Wars: The Scientific Rivalry that Created the Nuclear Age. ISBN 978-0-230-61374-4 (2009)
• U.S. Nuclear Weapons: The Secret History (1988)
• Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (2005)
• We Almost Lost Detroit (1975)
• What Will Work: Fighting Climate Change with Renewable Energy, Not Nuclear Power (2011)
• When Technology Fails (1994)
• World Nuclear Industry Status Report

See also

• Book:The Atomic Age
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
• List of articles associated with nuclear issues in California
• List of books about energy issues
• List of books about renewable energy
• List of nuclear holocaust fiction
• List of films about nuclear issues
• List of songs about nuclear war and weapons
• List of crimes involving radioactive substances
• List of environmental books
• Nuclear weapons in popular culture

References

1. "Stewart Brand + Mark Z. Jacobson: Debate: Does the world need nuclear energy?". TED. Filmed February 2010. Posted June 2010. Retrieved 21 October 2013. Check date values in: |date= (help)

External links

• ALSOS Digital Library for Nuclear Issues
• Bibliography: The Atomic Bomb
• Nuclear Reader