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Weart, Spencer R., 1942-

Title The rise of nuclear fear / Spencer R. Weart.

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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.

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Description	1 online resource (ix, 367 pages)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	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.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Nuclear energy -- History.
	Nuclear energy -- Psychological aspects.
	Antinuclear movement -- History.
	Radiation -- Public opinion -- History.
	TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Power Resources -- Nuclear.
	HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Weart, Spencer R., 1942- Rise of nuclear fear. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012 9780674052338 (DLC) 2011035170 (OCoLC)747385746
ISBN	9780674065062 (electronic bk.)
	0674065069 (electronic bk.)

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