The definitive story of humanity’s most awesome discovery and invention. What began as merely an interesting speculative problem in physics grew into the Manhattan Project, and ultimately the atomic bomb with frightening rapidity. Few great discoveries have evolved so swiftly — or have been so misunderstood. From the theoretical discussions of nuclear energy to the bright glare of Trinity there was a span of hardly more than twenty-five years. Here is the complete story of how the bomb was developed.

An engaging and authoritative account of the controversies and possibilities surrounding disposal of nuclear waste in the US. The book tells the full history, bringing to life the pioneering science, the political wrangling and media drama, and the not-in-my-backyard communities fighting to put waste elsewhere. This is a timely book for public interest groups, affected communities, policymakers, environmentalists, research scientists, and anyone interested in finding out more about this important issue.

A powerful eye-opener about the lies, deceptions and hypocrisies of 7 countries, including the United States, who never became members of the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty and whose nuclear program has been kept secret from the beginning. Mr. Sarram exposes the consequences of these lies and deceptions that have changed the world we live in today.

Drawing on the vast collection of U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (A.E.C.) files uncovered during his ten-year investigation of the agency, Daniel Ford recounts the full story of the nuclear safety cover-up and persistent A.E.C. mismanagement that turned the once-promising idea of nuclear power into the failed technology that gave rise to the accident at Three Miles Island. He also discloses some of the safety defects of the nuclear power stations still operating today.

While there has been much discussion concerning the impacts of nuclear accidents, never before has there been a comprehensive presentation concerning the health and environmental effects of the low dose radioactive contaminants that were emitted from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. This book provides a complete and extensive summary of all known research, and offers new insights to the likely long-term health and environmental consequences of nuclear accidents.

When do states acquire nuclear weapons? Overturning a decade of scholarship focusing on other factors, Debs and Monteiro show that proliferation occurs only when a state has both the willingness and opportunity to build the bomb. Unthreatened or protected states do not want them; weak and unprotected ones cannot get them. This powerful theory combined with extensive historical research on the nuclear trajectory of sixteen countries will make Nuclear Politics a standard reference in international security studies for decades to come.