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The Rise of Nuclear Fear
After a tsunami destroyed the cooling system at Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, triggering a meltdown, protesters around the world challenged the use of nuclear power. Germany announced it would close its plants by 2022. Although the ills of fossil fuels are better understood than ever,...
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| Format : | Livre |
| Langue : | anglais |
| Titre complet : | The Rise of Nuclear Fear / Spencer R. Weart |
| Publié : |
Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press
, 2012 |
| Description matérielle : | 1 vol. (IX-367 p.) |
| Contenu : | Contient : 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. |
| Sujets : |
BU Sciences
| | Cote | Année | Prêt | Statut |
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| 1er étage, salle 12 | 363.17 WEA | 2012 | Empruntable | Disponible |