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The Politics of Invisibility: Public Knowledge about Radiation Health Effects…
Before Fukushima, the most notorious large-scale nuclear accident the world had seen was Chernobyl in 1986. The fallout from Chernobyl covered vast areas in the Northern Hemisphere, especially in Europe. Belarus, at the time a Soviet republic, suffered heavily: nearly a quarter of its territory was covered with long-lasting radionuclides. Yet the damage from the massive fallout was largely impe…
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- 1 online resource (xii, 249 pages).
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Why nuclear disarmament matters /
From the former UN head weapons inspector in Iraq, a plea for a renewed global disarmament movement.
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- 1 online resource (95 pages).
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The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II
How it happened that technological prowess and national glory (or "radiance," which also means "radiation" in French) became synonymous in France as nowhere else.
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- 1 online resource (xxviii, 461 pages) : illustrations, map.
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Tritium on Ice: The Dangerous New Alliance of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power
The dangers of a United States government plan to abandon its fifty-year policy of keeping civilian and military uses of nuclear technology separate.In December 1998, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson announced that the U.S. planned to begin producing tritium for its nuclear weapons in commercial nuclear power plants. This decision overturned a fifty-year policy of keeping civilian and military …
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Our own worst enemy? :institutional interests and the proliferation of nuclea…
An examination of the effectiveness of knowledge nonproliferation programs implemented by the United States after the fall of the Soviet Union.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295970
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 358 pages) :maps.
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Unmaking the Bomb: A Fissile Material Approach to Nuclear Disarmament and Non…
The global stockpile, continued production and use of plutonium and highly enriched uranium facilitates proliferation, increases the risk of nuclear terrorism and is an obstacle to achieving irreversible nuclear disarmament. The book explains how these materials are used, describes the histories of fissile material production for weapons, provides an overview of the current global stockpile of …
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Producing power :the pre-Chernobyl history of the Soviet nuclear industry
An examination of how the technical choices, social hierarchies, economic structures, and political dynamics shaped the Soviet nuclear industry leading up to Chernobyl.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262321792
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- 1 online resource (xxxi, 362 pages) :illustrations.
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Double jeopardy :combating nuclear terror and climate change
Making the case that we can use nuclear power to combat climate change even as we reduce the risks of nuclear terror. Humanity faces two existential threats: nuclear annihilation and catastrophic climate change. Both have human origins, and both are linked to the use of nuclear energy. Inherent in the use of atomic fission is the risk that the technology and materials can be diverted to terrori…
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- 1 online resource (288 pages) :illustrations.
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Sharing knowledge shaping Europe U.S technological collaboration and nonproli…
How America used its technological leadership in the 1950s and the 1960s to foster European collaboration and curb nuclear proliferation, with varying degrees of success.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Transforming nuclear safeguards culturethe IAEA, Iraq, and the future of non-…
The role of organizational culture in international efforts to stop the spread of nuclear weapons.In Transforming Nuclear Safeguards Culture, Trevor Findlay investigates the role that organizational culture may play in preventing the spread of nuclear weapons, examining particularly how it affects the nuclear safeguards system of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the paramount glob…
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