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Fallout: Disasters, Lies, and the Legacy of the Nuclear Age


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Table of Contents:
A Note on Units INTRODUCTION Anthropocene Journey PART ONE: THE DESTROYER OF WORLDS CHAPTER 1 Hiroshima: An Invisible Scar CHAPTER 2 Critical Mass: MAUD in the Nuclear Garden CHAPTER 3 Las Vegas: Every Mushroom Cloud Has a Silver Lining CHAPTER 4 Pacific Tests: Godzilla and the Lucky Dragon CHAPTER 5 Semipalatinsk: Secrets of the Steppe CHAPTER 6 Plutonium Mountain: Proliferation Paradise PART TWO: COLD WAR AND HOT PARTICLES CHAPTER 7 Mayak: “Pressed for Time” Behind the Urals CHAPTER 8 Metlino: Even the Samovars Were Radioactive CHAPTER 9 Rocky Flats: Plutonium in the Snake Pit CHAPTER 10 Colorado Silos: Uncle Sam’s Nuclear Heartland CHAPTER 11 Broken Arrows: Dr. Strangelove and the Radioactive Rabbits CHAPTER 12 Windscale Fire: “A Cover Op, Plain and Simple” PART THREE: ATOMS FOR PEACE CHAPTER 13 Three Mile Island: How Not to Run a Power Plant CHAPTER 14 Chernobyl: A “Beautiful” Disaster CHAPTER 15 Chernobyl: Vodka and Fallot CHAPTER 16 Chernobyl: Hunting in Packs CHAPTER 17 Fukushima: A Scorpion’s Discovery CHAPTER 18 Fukushima: Baba’s Homecoming CHAPTER 19 Radiophobia: The Ghost at Fukushima CHAPTER 20 Millisieverts: A Dose of Reason PART FOUR: CLEANING UP CHAPTER 21 Sizewell: The Nuclear Laundryman CHAPTER 22 Sellafield: Stone Circles and Nuclear Legacies CHAPTER 23 Hanford: Decommissioning an Industry CHAPTER 24 Gorleben: Passport to a Non-Nuclear Future? CHAPTER 25 Waste: Out of Harm’s Way CONCLUSION Making Peace in Nagasaki Glossary Acknowledgments Notes Index

About the Author :
Fred Pearce is an award-winning author and journalist based in London. He has reported on environmental, science, and development issues from 85 countries over the past 20 years. An environment consultant at New Scientist magazine since 1992, he also writes regularly for the Guardian newspaper and Yale University’s prestigious e360 website. Pearce was voted UK Environment Journalist of the Year in 2001 and CGIAR agricultural research journalist of the year in 2002, and he won a lifetime achievement award from the Association of British Science Writers in 2011. His many books include Falllout, With Speed and Violence, Confessions of an Eco-Sinner, The Coming Population Crash, and The Land Grabbers.

Review :
“Pearce insightfully dissects the profound psychological and political impact nuclear technology has had on humankind and unflinchingly questions whether it might be time to acknowledge that its promises for both energy and defense have been largely unfulfilled.” —Booklist “In Fallout, Mr. Pearce, a veteran science journalist, travels the world to pin down what he calls ‘the radioactive legacies of the nuclear age.’ He moves between weaponry and energy, cataloguing mistakes, dishonesty and irrational fears. The result is a panorama of atomic grotesquerie that is at once troubling, surprising and ruthlessly entertaining.” —The Economist “For any reader who craves a clear-headed examination of the tangled relationship between a powerful technology and human politics, foibles, fears, and arrogance, Fallout is the definitive look at humanity’s nuclear adventure.” —Midwest Book Review “This tour de force by Fred Pearce takes the reader on a riveting journey through nuclear installations and radioactive landscapes around the world. A blend of firsthand reporting and historical research, Pearce’s prose reads easily while simultaneously asking the hard questions. The author’s penetrating political eye and sober scientific gaze combine to reveal the many reasons, including toxic legacies of fear and deception, that it’s time to call an end to the nuclear age. Read this book as if the future depended on it.” —Betsy Hartmann, author of The America Syndrome: Apocalypse, War and Our Call to Greatness


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780807092491
  • Publisher: Beacon Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Beacon Press
  • Height: 236 mm
  • No of Pages: 264
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Disasters, Lies, and the Legacy of the Nuclear Age
  • Width: 160 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0807092495
  • Publisher Date: 22 May 2018
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Weight: 517 gr


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